Services
REGIONAL CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORED BY STARBRIGHT TRAINING AND GIL INSTITUTE
SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 9-11, 2017
5TH ANNUAL MID-ATLANTIC PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE
NEW! THERAPLAY TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT
Gil Institute is the regional training center for The Theraplay Institute
Level One and MIM
October 25-28, 2016
Group Theraplay
October 29, 2016
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.
Team Profiles
Andrea Fisher, Psy.D
Dr. Andrea M. Fisher is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
Andrea Driggs McLeod, LCSW, RPT-S
Andrea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Ashley Frank , Psy.D.
Ashley is currently a Resident in Psychology, working towards Virginia licensure in clinical psychology.
“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.”