Hello! My name is Dr. Gabe Longhi. I am a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of accumulated clinical experience and 26 years as a licensed, trauma-focused psychotherapist, working with clients with the full range of mental health conditions and life problems. I consider it a genuine privilege to participate in your healing process, and your journey to a more vibrant, fulfilling future. My therapy style involves identifying and healing the root causes of just about every condition, including depression, anxiety, anger, mood swings, addictive behaviors, and relationship difficulties, and assisting in developing new skills for handling difficult thoughts and feelings, helping you become a more effective friend, family member, and intimate partner.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
The first session is designed to help understand your presenting problem, your goals for therapy, and for getting to know each other to make sure we are the best fit to meet those goals. This process is straight-forward for some clients, while at other times this requires a more lengthy collaborative process to help you organize your thoughts, feelings and goals. I will usually take at least one session to complete a psycho-diagnostic evaluation to identify contributing factors to your problem(s) or other specific conditions. We will often take more sessions to explore your history and identify patterns or root causes that may later be addressed directly. It is vital to truly understand your diagnoses and the impact of your history as a first step to learning how to cope with your symptoms, and when possible to release or overcome them.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
After 30 years in the field, I remain as passionate about this rewarding work as when I began. I have many years of clinical experience, with training in many evidence-based psychotherapies that are individualized to meet your specific needs. I have a style for challenging clients in a manner that is empowering, supportive, and non-judgmental, highlighting the realistic challenges with specific means for overcoming them, resulting in genuine hope. Clients have often reflected that I am authentic with them. I have a history of short- and long- term psychotherapies that result in a readiness to complete the therapy, and walk away with true autonomy and freedom from the past.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
My specialty is treating those who have struggled with either overt adulthood traumas or more elusive, difficult childhood experiences, such as cumulative neglect, misunderstanding, or alienation. Conversely, I have been very helpful to highly motivated and insightful clients seeking short-term assistance to understand a specific problem or to seek solutions they can enact themselves. I am also best positioned to help those who have attempted many strategies and therapies without the hoped for relief, or those who have been feeling hopeless about truly creating change in their lives. The path to true healing is not easy, and clients with realistic expectations about the intensive nature of trauma work or psychotherapy will benefit the most. Sometimes trauma work results in a temporary increase in symptoms as you address the difficult memories, thoughts and feelings you have avoided as a natural part of your condition. True healing is usually painful in much the same way for emotional ailments as physical ones, such as the pain we feel for weeks while a broken bone mends.
About Dr. Gabe Longhi, Psy.D.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly effective evidenced based psychotherapy (EBP) in treating trauma, mood disorders and conditions, which has helped my clients to effectively resolve or diminish the impact of past events in their lives and thinking. It has been in my toolbox of clinical approaches since 2000, and has become the treatment of choice for many patients. As a trauma-informed psychologist, I complete thorough histories to identify major Traumas, smaller "t" traumas, and/ or distressing events that have shaped your perceptions and beliefs about yourself, the world, and the future. I then utilize EMDR to target the most influential or most "haunting" memories one at a time with EMDR to assist in releasing their impact and influence over you, your perceptions, and your behaviors. I also have training and experience various other EBPs for treating trauma, including in Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and make use of each of these based on your individual needs and your response to the treatment.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
ACT is an empowering behavioral therapy strategy utilizing counter-intuitive techniques that help clients build the skills necessary to change your behaviors and bring more meaning into your life. I utilize ACT as a means to assist clients in building self-awareness through present moment observation of your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes (ie Mindfulness), while tangibly acting as a coping strategy to build tolerance to difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT is often used in combination with trauma-focused treatment to treat depression, anxiety, and the full range of mental health conditions by helping to tolerate and cope with memories and feelings that may be triggered during and after sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is a therapeutic approach that can be applied to the full range of mental health conditions by helping to understand the relationship of thoughts, feelings and behavior, and learning to challenge irrational beliefs or distortion, but I also use it in a very specific manner for addressing substance abuse and addiction, as well as harm reduction strategies for those clients looking to simply reduce or their use safely.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I have been trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, which is an important strategy for building self-awareness, as well as grounding and tolerance strategies for coping with difficult memories, thoughts, feelings, and cravings.
Psychodynamic
My orientation and style for approaching psychotherapy with clients derives from self-psychology, which aims to understand how early, negative childhood experiences replay throughout your life. This underscores my rationale for finding and addressing the root cause of depression, anxiety, and impaired relationships, and using insight and trauma-focused strategies to heal, motivate and enact behavioral changes.