His practice includes long-term and brief psychotherapy, clinical supervision and organizational consultation. His faculty positions include: Founding Faculty of the International Psychotherapy Institute and Faculty at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Formerly, he served as Director of the Counseling Center at American University and as Psychologist-in-Residence, Department of Psychology, American University. He is the author of a number of publications including the books, Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Relationship in Short-term Work and Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy. His latest publication is Stadter, M and Gao, J. (in press). Shame east and west: Similarities, differences, culture and self. In the journal: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.