To Live an Examined Life
Therapist
Dimitri Gatsiounis
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 from truly diverse backgrounds and in many clinical settings—including New York’s Bellevue Hospital, an LAUSD high school, a non-profit counseling center and private practice in Beverly Hills.
Adults
Adults make up the majority of my patients. I work psychodynamically in a range of areas, including anxiety, depression, marital and premarital, men’s issues and sports performance.
Adolescents
With one foot in a complex, emerging “real world” and the other in youth, adolescents live through a pivotal life stage. Guidance and management are key. I have conducted in-depth work with adolescents of nearly all types.
Couples
A central task of relationships, we’re told, involves resolving conflict. But this first requires (re)learning love itself to work through things in a manner that is trusting, fair and mutually constructive.
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 understanding is achieved. This provides the patient with a sensitive regard for self (and thus others), and helps lead to prolonged optimal expression of oneself in the world. I am available for consult and referral.
Send Me a Message
Location, etc.
Address
Private practice in Beverly Hills & Studio City, CA
Telehealth
Offered at this time
Additional
Dimitri Gatsiounis, M.A.
LMFT #85064
would rather do than change."