Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW
Santiago Delboy, MBA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice and founder of Fermata Psychotherapy, a psychodynamic group practice in Chicago. He is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, where he is Adjunct Clinical Faculty, and has been Reflective Practice Supervisor at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and a Faculty Member / Clinical Consultant at the Institute for Clinical Social Work.
AREAS OF INTEREST & APPROACHES TO PRACTICE
Object Relations, Relational Psychoanalysis, Intersubjectivity, Transference/Countertransference Dynamics, Therapeutic Action
EDUCATION
MSW, Loyola University Chicago
MBA, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
LICENSES
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Illinois
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP)
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
The Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39)
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Delboy, S. (2025). The Patient’s Wish To Know Their Therapist: Curiosity, Fantasy, and the Therapist’s Inner World. The American Psychoanalyst.
Delboy, S. & Michaels, L. (2025). The Therapy World Has Changed: Where Are We Now?Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
Delboy, S. (2024). Identificación con el agresor: Convirtiéndonos en alguien más a través del trauma. Revista de Psicoanálisis, Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis.
Delboy, S. (2022). When Hope Gets In The Way. Aeon.
Delboy, S. & Michaels, L. (2021). Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want from Therapy. Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
Delboy, S. (2021). Of Covid and Fruit. ROOM: A sketchbook for Analytic Action.
Delboy, S. (2020). Contención y duelo: Reflexiones sobre los primeros días de cuarentena. Revista de Psicoanálisis, Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis.
Delboy, S. (2020). A Country of Two: Race and Social Class in an Immigrant Therapeutic Dyad. Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
CONTACT
EMAIL: sdelboy@icsw.edu or santiago@fermatapsychotherapy.com
PHONE: 312.725.6192