She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a Fellow and a Diplomate of The Academy of Psychoanalysis in the American Psychological Association. As well as being on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Gemma has been a visiting faculty member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and the Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has served as Member-at-Large on the Division 39 Board, and as President of the Sections of Local Chapters, of Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, and of Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Practitioners. Gemma has presented nationally and internationally on topics such as countertransferential aspects of dream