Andrew Gottlieb, Clinical Social Worker in Brooklyn, 11201

Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD, LCSW

Profession(s):
Clinical Social Work
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
LCSW - R028146

My Approach to Helping

In private practice for over 22 years, I have treated a range of patients, specializing in work with adolescents, young adults, and LGBT people. Though much of my experience has been individually oriented, I've also done much couple work with gay/lesbian/bi/trans people as well as heterosexual men and women.

While acquiring deeper insight into what makes you tick and how your past life affects your present are both key, putting that knowledge to work is equally important. Setting realistic, attainable goals, both short- and long-term, is an indispensable part of the therapeutic process. Though I use psychoanalytic and systems theories to inform my work, for me, the therapeutic relationship remains the cornerstone of treatment. Helping you to understand what goes on between the two of us serves as a model for furthering your understanding of what goes on between you and the other people in your life.

More Info About My Practice

My published work includes five books: Out of the Twilight: Fathers of Gay Men Speak (2000), Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves (2003), Side by Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling (2005), Interventions with Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People: From the Inside Out (with Jerry J. Bigner, PhD) (2006), and On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men (2008), all through Routledge Press. I am also an Editor for the Journal of GLBT Family Studies.