My name is Gary Glickman, and I’m a psychotherapist—a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Santa Monica, on Ocean Park Boulevard.
I’m honored, at midlife, to be helping other people along their healing path, and to be sharing some of the insights I’ve learned along my own path. I’m proud, too, of that long path — ‘life experience,’—that’s helped me to understand that everyone’s task is to grow their soul; that’s how suffering and conflict come to have value and meaning.
I grew up in a once-small town in New Jersey (Morristown), and studied Music and Literature at Brown University. I earned an MFA in Writing from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, published a novel, taught writing, and lived many places—Boston, Provincetown, New York, Rome—before making my home in California, and earning my second MA, this time in Counseling and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, a program grounded in Jungian, Imaginal, and Archetypal Psychology.
I trained in Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine’s Foundation for Human Enrichment, and in Somatic Psychology at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, part of the Chicago School of Psychology, where I have earned my Ph.D.c. and where I am currently researching my dissertation. I have been an adjunct faculty member in the UCLA Extension Writers Program since 1996. In 2000 I was honored with the School of the Arts Outstanding Instructor Award.
I've worked in several mental health clinics in Los Angeles, including Jewish Family Services of Santa Monica, and for four years was the resident therapist at the Kruks Tilsner Transitional Living Program for young adults, part of the Youth Services department at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, in Hollywood. I have been in private practice in Santa Monica since 2002.
Many of my clients are gifted, high-functioning people, interested in bettering their lives through bettering their behavior and insights in relationships, and shedding life-long painful habits and constraints. I often work with people involved with the UCLA Liver and Kidney Transplant unit—both patients and family members of patients. During my years in Hollywood, I worked with Dual Diagnosis clients (those juggling substance abuse in addition to other problems), youth and young adult sex-workers, abandoned and mistreated youth, and transgender youth and adults.
I’m proud of my path, even the most difficult parts, and I’m continually transformed by the courage, resourcefulness, resiliency and insights of the people who honor me with their trust.
I'm pleased to bring all of that into my work with you, focused specifically on your own particular goals and your personality.
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