Elections - Nominees

2025 Elections - Executive Office Nomination Slate

The following SDPC Board Members have been nominated and recommended by the Nominations Committee, a subcommitte of the Board of Trustees. Official elections by the SDPC Membership will be held on April 5th at the Meeting of Members. Note: Voting is reserved for Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists, Semi-Retired, Retired and current SDPC Candidates only.  If you are ineligible to vote, please consider joining one of our standing committees. We welcome all members to be part of most of our committees. If you are eligible to vote, but unable to attend the  in person, you may vote virtually through a link that will be sent to your email address.

SDPC NOMINATION SLATE

Current vacancies are as follows:

*If you are interested in nominating someone or self nominating for any of the available positions, please submit a nomination form by midnight on April 4, 2025, for approval by the Nominating Committee. Approved nominees will be included on the slate presented to the general membership at the April 5, 2025, Meeting of Members. Late applications will not be accepted. For questions, please email: elections@sdpsychoanalytic.org.

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NOMINEES:

BOARD 2025-27 PRESIDENT POSITION

Timothy H. Rayner, M.D.

Dr. Rayner graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1987 and from Tulane University School of Medicine, with M.D. and MPH degrees, in 1991. Between his internship and psychiatry residency, both at Naval Medical Center San Diego, he returned to the Naval Academy as the Flight Surgeon. Following residency, he entered psychoanalytic training at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, graduating in 2003, while on deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he led a Combat Stress Platoon. He left the Navy and set up private practice in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis in 2004.

He served for over 12 years on both the Board of Directors and the Education Committee of SDPC, where he was co-Director of Education for 6 years and has taught classes every year. Meanwhile, he became involved in the leadership of the American Psychoanalytic Association on both the Executive Council (Board of Directors) and the Board on Professional Standards. In 2018, he became the first Lead Director on the Board of Directors of APsaA, and with that position, Chair of the Governance Committee. He chaired the Expanded Membership Task Force, which produced a Bylaws Amendment that was approved by a supermajority of the Membership of APsaA in February 2022. He has now returned to be more involved locally as President of SDPC.

In the past several months under Dr. Rayner's leadership, SDPC has introduced new programs, appointed a membership chair, established a bylaw review committee, and is in the process of developing a succession plan and working on a strategic plan for the sustainability of SDPC. As an active member of APsA's leadership team, Dr. Rayner brings a vast amount of board experience to SDPC. He currently serves as the APsA chair of the Bylaws committee and is a member of several other prominent APsA committees.

Benoit Vincent, LMFT, Ph.D.

Benoit Vincent is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an Associate in Psychoanalysis. He is part of a group practice at Thrive Coastal Therapy in Carlsbad, CA and is also part of a non-profit community practice, Palomar Family Counseling Service, in Escondido, CA. In addition to his clinical background, Benoit also holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has successfully managed large 500 Europe companies in his previous professional career. 

Benoit obtained his master's in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University in San Diego and completed four years of advanced training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and academic psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC). He has been a practicing psychotherapist for over six years in various settings, including schools in the North County area of San Diego.

As an SDPC board member since 2016, Benoit served as Chair of the Outreach Committee and most recently as the Chair of the Membership and Nomination Committees. He has played a key role in expanding SDPC’s outreach: organizing the SDPC annual fundraising campaign since 2016 and teaching an introductory seminar on the Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Carol Koenisberger. Under his leadership, the Membership Committee reviewed over 30 applications and welcomed 18 new members to SDPC’s community, including reinstating past members who have remained inactive since COVID. With his extensive business background, Benoit has been a great asset in making critical financial decisions that have managed to keep SDPC sustainable for the last 5+ years.

Outside of SDPC, Benoit has been running a business coaching practice for the last 10 years. Prior to his psychotherapeutic experience, he spent 30 years as an executive in charge of research and development for a large international corporation based in Carlsbad, after working for the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and teaching Mechanical Engineering classes at the master level.

Fredrick Huang, M.D.

Fred Huang is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2003. Fred went on to do psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, graduating in 2020. Since 2022, he has been a member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center.

With a special interest in group dynamics and organizational psychology, Fred likes to think about how unconscious processes influence interactions within groups and organizations. This shapes his work with both individuals and organizations.