July 2021: Reopening of in-person visits
As of July 1, 2021 our mental health therapists will begin to gradually transition from virtual to in-person sessions. These decisions are being made through dialogue between therapists and their clients, and clients have a choice of how they wish services to be obtained. Our therapists will have a hybrid model of providing both in-session and virtual appointments, pinpointing the type of services necessary for clients on a case by case basis.
The office has been prepared carefully to receive the public. Most especially, we have guidelines and protocols for wearing masks, for dropping off children, for where parents should wait, for air circulation, sanitation, and maintaining the most healthy and safe environment we can provide.
Please contact our Intake Coordinator, Malvolia Gregory, to discuss your options and to learn about our safeguards and policies. Our therapists are eager to return to play therapy environments that might allow children to deepen their therapy work. In addition, some child and adult clients will have the option to continue utilizing telehealth.
Announcements
- COVID-19 Crisis Management - Brain and Body Hygiene
- COVID-19 Crisis Management - Guidelines for Parents & Caretakers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Gil Institute is seeking a licensed mental health professional to serve as an independent contractor in our thriving group private practice. Please send interest letter and CV to gilinstituteplay@gmail.com
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner s Reference
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Posttraumatic Play in Children:
What Clinicians Need to Know
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Services
Unique Aspects of Our Approach
One of the distinguishing features of our clinical private practice is our willingness to be truly integrative of evidence-based approaches as well as promising trends that maximize our potential to be helpful to our clients.
Integrative
To be truly integrative is challenging in that clinicians require ongoing exposure to continuing education in the literature, workshops, conferences, and specialized trainings. You will see that commitment reflected in the brief biographical information related to our therapists, as well as the incorporation of programs such as Theraplay, Circle of Security Parenting Groups, and HEARTS.
Expressive
Gil Institute advocates for developmentally-appropriate services to young children, youth, and adults and utilize the expressive therapies (art, play, sand) to provide alternate forms of communication and expression.
Therapy
Our therapists highly value opportunities for clients to reflect on their work and to achieve shifts in perception which are well facilitated through the expressive arts within an anchored therapy relationship.
Expressive therapies invite, allow, and
encourage externalizing of concerns through images and symbols, which can then be explored, felt, given voice, and eventually integrated. Through this process, traumatic memories can be acknowledged, managed in more adaptive ways, and transformed.
The end result is that pain subsides, control is restored, and hope is activated
for the future.
Available Areas of Expertise
THE GIL INSTITUTE FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY AND EDUCATION, LLC STANDS WITH OUR BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT FOR POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE.
We also commit to anti-racist actions as we advocate and provide mental health services to our diverse community. We are allies in support of equity, social justice reform, peaceful protests, and safe and just police responses. BLACK LIVES MATTER to us and we will be part of changes designed to dismantle institutional racism, one institution at a time. In this way, we will begin to meet the promises made throughout history, outstanding promises, not yet realized. As an organization whose primary purpose is to ameliorate childhood trauma and its impact, we recognize that racist actions and words can be traumatizing and cause black and brown people to feel oppressed, marginalized, and helpless.
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” John Lewis
"Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world: who we serve, what they need, and how to successfully meet people where they are. Daring leaders fight for the inclusion of all people, opinions, and perspectives because that makes us all better and stronger. That means having the courage to acknowledge our own privilege and staying open to learning about our biases and blind spots. It is also listening, centering, and honoring stories that reflect experiences that are different than our own. Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead." Brenee Brown
Helping to recognize the continued need to ensure racial freedom and equality
For 155 years Juneteenth has commemorated the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the United States. It is celebrated on June 19 because on that date in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army landed in Galveston, Texas and informed enslaved individuals that the Civil War had ended, and that the institution of slavery had been abolished. Granger's announcement came more than two years after former President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.