To Live an Examined Life
Therapist
Coming to therapy is a heroic step. Yet without a great therapist, one’s work toward healing may only go so far. As a clinician with over 15 years in the field, I grasp the process and how to guide one from anxiety and fear to curiosity and hope, then courage and competence.
Services
I have worked with patients in diverse settings: Bellevue Hospital, an L.A. public high school, a non-profit counseling center, and private practice in Studio City, where I meet with patients virtually and in person.
Adults
I treat patients 14 and up and work psychodynamically with anxiety and depression, trauma and grief, bipolar and borderline, parenting and pre/marital. I also work with twins and the highly creative.
Adolescents
With one foot planted in youth and the other stepping into the “real world,” adolescents live in a complex and pivotal life stage. I have conducted in-depth work with adolescents of nearly all types.
Couples
A main wish for many couples is to resolve conflict and improve communication. But this first requires connecting to one’s own feelings and then learning to share these with another, often for the first time. That’s where true connection begins.
How I Work:
a Brief Note
I work psychodynamically. This means that in addition to talk therapy emphasis is placed on the relational aspects between patient and therapist. Through this exchange, in a setting free of judgment, deep insight is achieved. This provides the patient with a sensitive regard for self, and therefore toward others, and helps lead to prolonged optimal expression of oneself in the world. I am available for consult and referral.
Contact
Location
Private practice in Studio City.
Telehealth
Offered at this time.
Additional
Dimitri Gatsiounis, M.A.; LMFT#111049
"Everything depends on what we
would rather do than change."
Adam Phillips PSYCHOANALYST