Dr. Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, FABP, FIPA is a licensed clinical psychologist, board-certified psychoanalyst, and an active leader in the bio-behavioral sciences. Dr. Walling is Associate Professor in the Department of Research Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, his clinical interests survey the fields of human sexuality, relational psychoanalysis, somatic psychotherapy, soma-aesthetics, and trauma psychologies. He is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis where he serves as Faculty Chair in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training program.  Dr. Walling also serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality.  

Dr. Walling is a Clinical Research Fellow at Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender and Reproduction located at Indiana University Bloomington and serves on their International Advisory Council.  He also serves as Vice-President of the Board of the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation, and has served as the Research Chair & Past-President of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, and was Associate Deputy-Editor of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. Dr. Walling has guest lectured throughout the world on his academic and clinical praxis, and has received several research awards including being named as the Gina Ogden Curatorial Scholar in Sex Research at the Kinsey Institute. His peer-reviewed works are published in the American Psychological Association‘s Journal of Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal.  Dr. Walling maintains a private practice in Brentwood (Los Angeles), California.