Brian Stachowiak

Brian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a member of Pacifica’s Adjunct Faculty in the M.A. Counseling Psychology department. He is a native Angeleno, having grown-up as a gay man in the 1970s in an impoverished ghetto of suburban Los Angeles. Brian has been a gay grassroots-psychological activist for many years and social justice is a primary tenet of his academic and clinical work. His clinical focus is on the empowerment and cultivation of LGBTQ+ personhood that honors and values the vitality, social role and visionary aspects of the LGBTQ+ experience from an affirmative and psychodynamic Jungian depth orie ntation. Brian has a special interest in helping to develop an archetypal understanding of homosexuality and same-sex love that can revolutionize how all people relate to each other and serve as a model for all of society. Brian received his clinical training from the Los Angeles LGBT Center in Hollywood, California, the nation’s largest facility providing services to LGBT people. He has extended his analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Trauma Resource Institute, the latter of which he has also co-facilitated several training workshops to clinicians on the Trauma Resiliency Model. He is a graduate of a two-year intensive Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in West Los Angeles, where he now sits on the Board of Directors and chairs the diversities and socio-cultural committee for the institute. Brian is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Division 39 of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, as well as the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is the founder of SoCal Affirmative Psychotherapy, a private practice based in the Silverlake region of Los Angeles where he provides individual and couples counseling from an LGBTQ+ affirmative and relational psychoanalytic and depth orientation to treat a wide range of disorders such as PTSD, character pathology, anxiety and mood disorders, as well as substance/alcohol abuse.