Gary Grossman Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY12045)
Psychoanalysis • Psychotherapy • Consultation

Gary Grossman Ph.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist
(PSY12045)
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychotherapy
• Consultation



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address  
2186 Geary Blvd, Suite #211
San Francisco, CA 94115
United States
     
www   garygrossmanphd.com
     
email  
     
voice   1-415-928-4662



About

I am a psychoanalyst and psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings. After working at a private counseling center for 4 1/2 years, I opened my private practice in 1984 as a licensed marriage and family therapist. While completing my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, I trained at Operation Concern (later known as New Leaf), an outpatient clinic for the LGBT community; Mt. Zion Crisis Clinic, a 24 hour psychiatric emergency clinic, and the Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco. I became licensed as a psychologist in 1991. In addition to private practice, I have worked as an Attending & Consulting Psychologist on the HIV Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at San Francisco General Hospital from 1992 to 1996.

I received my psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (now known as the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis) and graduated in 2002. I am a faculty member and Training & Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, where I served as chair of the Psychoanalytic Education Division from 2016 to 2022.

In addition to my private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation, I teach at various training institutions in the SF Bay Area and lecture locally, nationally, and internationally, and am a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Volunteer, at the University of California, San Francisco. My areas of teaching interests include gay/lesbian and gender issues, sexuality, psychotherapy education, and psychotherapeutic technique.

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My Services

I offer psychoanalysis for adults and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescents, adults and couples. I will typically meet with individuals and couples for 1 to 3 consultation sessions to determine the treatment modality and frequency.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is an intensive psychotherapy that typically involves 4 to 5 sessions per week. This model of therapy is based on recognition of the centrality of relationships in human development and of the profound influence of our earliest relationships on our present day functioning. Psychoanalysis also understands that our level of self-awareness is always limited and that our behaviors, choices, interests, and conscious beliefs are influenced by beliefs, desires, and fears that we are not aware of.


Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy draws on the same model of human development as psychoanalysis, in a less intensive mode of treatment, typically 1 to 3 sessions per week.


Clinical Consultation & Supervision

I provide consultation to psychotherapists of all levels of experience who are interested in learning more about psychoanalytic approaches to treatment and in deepening their work with patients.

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Fees

Individual sessions are 50 minutes and the fee is $250. Couples therapy sessions are 60 minutes and the fee is $300. I offer some flexibility in fees for individuals with 2 or more sessions per week. On occasion, I am able to offer a reduced fee for once weekly sessions for individuals with financial need.

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Contact

To arrange an appointment for a consultation, please telephone me at 1-415-928-4662.

All other inquiries, including clinical consultations, teaching, speaking engagements, and/or interviews may reach me by phone or by email: gary.grossman@ucsf.edu .

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Recent Presentations And Lectures

10/24/2015
Flirting with Disaster: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Gay Male Desire & High Risk Sex,
Panel Presentation, Sex in the Wild Zone: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Teens, Gay Men & Mothers. St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
10/22/2015
Pink Parenting: Providing a Facilitating Environment for Gay & Lesbian Teens,
2015 Paul A. Dewald Lecture, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
02/28/2014
Flirting with Disaster: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Gay Male Desire & High Risk Sex,
SFCP Psychoanalytic Grand Rounds at Stanford University.
11/25/2013
Psychoanalysis & Homosexuality in the 21st Century: Perspectives from an American Gay Psychoanalyst,
Paper presented at the Kodera Foundation of the Japanese Psychoanalytic Association, Tokyo, Japan.
11/17 & 22/2013
Developmental Considerations in Psychotherapy with HIV-Positive Gay Men: Psychoanalytic Perspectives,
Invited seminars for Clinical Psychologists & Mental Health Professionals in Kyoto and Tokyo. Sponsored by Osaka National Hospital HIV Medical Services & the Japan Ministry of Health.
11/18 & 21/2013
The Psychological Impact of HIV Disease in Gay Men: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,
Invited lectures for HIV Healthcare Providers in Osaka and Kumamoto. Sponsored by Osaka National Hospital HIV Medical Services & the Japan Ministry of Health.
10/20/2012
Developmental Considerations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men,
a workshop sponsored by The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, the Counseling Center at Case Western Reserve University & PFLAG-Cleveland.
01/09/2010
Supportive Parenting of Gay & Lesbian Teens,
a presentation sponsored by the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, and the Greater Knoxville Chapter of Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG).
01/09/2010
Developmental Considerations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Gay Men,
a seminar sponsored by the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, Knoxville, TN.
12/05/2009
Childhood Romance Denied: Oedipal Drama and It's Impact on the Lives of Gay Men,
a paper presented at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
07/30/2009
Childhood Romance Denied: Oedipal Drama and It's Impact on the Lives of Gay Men,
a paper presented at the Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Chicago, IL.
03/06/2009
Pink Parenting: Providing a Facilitating Environment for Lesbian & Gay Kids,
Lecture Series, Denver Psychoanalytic Society.
01/25/2008
Pink Parenting: Providing a Facilitating Environment for Lesbian & Gay Kids,
Public Lecture Series, SF Center for Psychoanalysis.
11/09/2007
Gay Adolescence,
SF Center for Psychoanalysis Sonoma Outreach: Conversations on Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth at Risk.

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Professional Organization Affiliations

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