Background
I received a Masters in Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work in 2000, and am licensed in California as a clinical social worker (LCS 23463). My training was with both children and adults. Since that time I have worked in several different settings and gained a broad range of experience. I am an adult psychoanalyst, and a third year candidate in child and adolescent psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Earlier in my career I also had formal training and educational instruction in preschool mental health consultation and child psychotherapy.
My training and working orientation is in contemporary psychoanalytic practice and developmental theory. There are various ways of describing what this means, but in general psychoanalysis or psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic orientation (sometimes called psychodynamic therapy) involves helping people to understand more about their inner lives, their relationships, and the patterns that organize their psychological and emotional lives. Many people in this kind of therapy discuss their current and past experiences, and the whole range of their various thoughts and feelings in order to gain new perspective and understanding. This close attention to one's experience along with the analyst's/psychotherapist's attuned presence and assistance can lead to a deep unfolding of the stands of experience that both underlay different concerns and struggles but also allow for greater feelings of freedom and being more fully involved in life. Concerns that might bring one into this kind of therapy could include, among other things, feelings of depression, anxiety, trouble developing or sustaining satisfying relationships, a lack of energy or an overabundance of unproductive energy, recurrent troubling thoughts and feelings, social isolation, too heavy a reliance on substances, or trouble organizing and/or motivating oneself. All of these issues, and many others can be talked and thought about as a means of not only relieving the discomfort or pain, but to also to promote deep-seated and long lasting changes.
I've have considerable experience with children, teens, and their families. Additionally I have also supervised and consulted in a number of different educational settings. I have had experience and enjoy working with people from a variety of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Professional Affiliations:
-Member San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
-American Psychoanalytic Association
-Candidate Member Association for Child Psychoanalysis
-National Association of Clinical Social Workers
-Co-chair of the Child Development Program, San Francisco Center
for Psychoanalysis
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Gregory Villalba, LCSW
2354 Post Street, Suite F
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 794-1578
[email protected]
My training and working orientation is in contemporary psychoanalytic practice and developmental theory. There are various ways of describing what this means, but in general psychoanalysis or psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic orientation (sometimes called psychodynamic therapy) involves helping people to understand more about their inner lives, their relationships, and the patterns that organize their psychological and emotional lives. Many people in this kind of therapy discuss their current and past experiences, and the whole range of their various thoughts and feelings in order to gain new perspective and understanding. This close attention to one's experience along with the analyst's/psychotherapist's attuned presence and assistance can lead to a deep unfolding of the stands of experience that both underlay different concerns and struggles but also allow for greater feelings of freedom and being more fully involved in life. Concerns that might bring one into this kind of therapy could include, among other things, feelings of depression, anxiety, trouble developing or sustaining satisfying relationships, a lack of energy or an overabundance of unproductive energy, recurrent troubling thoughts and feelings, social isolation, too heavy a reliance on substances, or trouble organizing and/or motivating oneself. All of these issues, and many others can be talked and thought about as a means of not only relieving the discomfort or pain, but to also to promote deep-seated and long lasting changes.
I've have considerable experience with children, teens, and their families. Additionally I have also supervised and consulted in a number of different educational settings. I have had experience and enjoy working with people from a variety of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Professional Affiliations:
-Member San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
-American Psychoanalytic Association
-Candidate Member Association for Child Psychoanalysis
-National Association of Clinical Social Workers
-Co-chair of the Child Development Program, San Francisco Center
for Psychoanalysis
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gregory Villalba, LCSW
2354 Post Street, Suite F
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 794-1578
[email protected]
