About
Dr Gil Spielberg is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who works in West Los Angeles, in the Santa Monica area and La Jolla, California. He has over 35 years of experience as an individual and group clinical psychologist. Gil has a doctorate in Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego. He underwent his post graduate training at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York, and his group psychoanalytic training was from the Centre for Advanced Group Studies, New York. While Gil specializes in Group Therapy, he also works with select individuals and couples.
“It was the 60s, the time of the Vietnam War, which very much affected me. I wanted, as many of my generation, to change the world, so I studied sociology, and worked as a social worker for 4 years. The world did not change, but I could help how we perceived and reacted to the world so I studied psychology.”
Gil is a Certified Group Psychotherapist, a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and a Diplomate in Group Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. In addition, he has taught at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego (Alliant), and the University of California, San Diego and Los Angeles. Currently, he is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and works as a consultant to the Actors Fund in LA. As well as a practitioner, Dr Spielberg is a teacher, mentor and also a supervisor at Beit T’Shuvah, an addiction rehab centre in Culver City.
“I enjoy the vitality that comes from a diverse practice encompassing adults of all genders, nationalities, and belief systems, many of whom are in the creative fields. A safe space and atmosphere of trust are fundamental to facilitate an emerging dialogue. The more present each can be within the therapeutic relationship, the more potent the healing dialogue becomes.”