About Me

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          Dr. Anthony Ronald Morice, PsyD was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ and lived there until coming to the Bay Area at the age of 23. Although his desire to become a psychologist first arose in adolescence, it was not until after healing from his own mental health crisis and addiction issues as a young adult that his devotion to working with others’ suffering became solidified. Dr. Morice then returned to Arizona State University to complete his bachelor’s in psychology and graduated Magna Cum Lade in 2013. Following a year of meaningful clinical work with at-risk teens experiencing extreme behavioral problems, Dr. Morice then entered the Doctor of Clinical Psychology (PsyD) program at the California Institute of Integral Studies and began his journey in San Francisco.

          While in the PsyD program at CIIS, Dr. Morice’s studies focused on the integration of the contemporary evidence-based psychological theories and interventions, along with psychoanalytic, existential, and other depth-based models of understanding the human experience. He also began his participation in the Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, creating a year-long cartel on the topic of psychoanalysis and addiction, and engaging in other groups studying Lacan’s seminars. During his PsyD. program Dr. Morice also gained invaluable clinical experience working in various practicum sites throughout the Bay Area, including working with incarcerated individuals in the Jail Behavioral Health system, people experiencing addiction issues at the Henry Ohlhoff House in San Francisco, an outpatient clinic conducting psychodynamic therapy sessions with adults and couples, and finally trauma-informed psychotherapy with children and their families at Girls Inc of Alameda. His PsyD then culminated with his doctoral dissertation titled “Mapping the Psychic Change: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Alcoholics Anonymous”, where he used psychoanalytic conceptualizations of narcissism and transference to articulate the psychological transformation inherent in, and critique the limits of, the 12-Step Recovery Model. 

          Since graduating in 2019 from the PsyD program, Dr. Morice’s professional endeavors have included teaching, private practice, and work in community mental health. For the last 5 years Dr. Morice has served as an adjunct faculty member at CIIS where he teaches Addiction Treatment and Human Development courses in various Masters and Doctoral Programs, and mostly recently joined the University of Dallas as an adjunct professor teaching Addiction Treatment from a psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Morice has been working as Program Director and now Clinical Director of Ohlhoff Recovery Programs since 2021, where he strives to carve out an analytic space for the unspoken subject and push the envelope of the contemporary discourse of addiction treatment.  There he works directly with clients, conducts individual and group supervision for staff at all three levels of care, leads community events, and runs clinical training program for students. Dr. Morice is currently in psychoanalytic formation as a candidate psychoanalyst in the Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis under the tutelage of Marcelo Estrada, founding member of the LSP. Other research interests include the effects of capitalism on subjectivity, critical analyses of contemporary models of psychotherapy, and systems theories and consultation.