DR. GLORIA AVRECH
Licensed Clinical Social Worker #5016
960 E. Green Street, Suite 203
Pasadena, California 91106
626-792-9483
spiritglo44@sbcglobal.net
SERVICES
I have a full-time private practice in Pasadena, California and serve people of all ages. With many years of professional experience I work in the following modalities:
- Individual
- Couples
- Conjoint (for example, Parent/Child)
- Family
- Supervision
- Consultation
I have expertise in helping people with a range of problems including depression, anxiety, grief and bereavement issues, relationship problems, work problems, men’s and women’s issues, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, characterological and developmental issues, family and school behavioral problems.
Although I am a Jungian Analyst and Psychotherapist, I am practical in my clinical work and will employ whatever theory and techniques are necessary to assist patients in healing as effectively and quickly as possible.
I have particular skills in dream interpretation and the employment of sandplay as a technique.
Also, I am the former Director of the Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. I have lectured statewide as well as nationally and several of my articles have been published in professional journals.
EDUCATION
C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, California (1988-1998), Certified Jungian Analyst
The Sanville Institute – formerly California Institute for Clinical Social Work (1981-1987), Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, Maryland, (1967-1969), M.S.W.
University of California, Berkeley, California (1962-1966), B.A.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker #5016
Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work #000575
Academy of Certified Social Workers, NASW #88105428
RESOURCES
Suggested Readings
Living in the Borderlands
Jerome S. Bernstein
Dream Book
Betty Bethards
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
Gifts Differing
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Richard Carlson
Healers on Healing
Richard Carlson & Benjamin Shield
The Religious Function of the Psyche
Lionel Corbett
The Four-Fold Way
Angeles Arrien
The Archetype of the Apocalypse
– and
Anatomy of the Psyche
– and
Ego & Archetype
– and
Melville’s Moby Dick: An American Nekyia
Edward Edinger
The Way of the Small
Michael Gellert
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Transforming & Healing
– and
No Death, No Fear
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Parental Image
M. Esther Harding
Why is it always about You?
Sandy Hotchkiss
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung
Man & His Symbols
Carl G. Jung
Sandplay
Dora M. Kalff
Inner World of Trauma
Donald Kalsched
How to use the I Ching
Stephen J. Karcher
Please Understand Me
David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments
– and
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner
Type Talk
Otto Kroeger & Janet M. Thuesen
Introvert Advantage
Marti Laney
Stop Walking on Eggshells
Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger
Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan
Anatomy of the Spirit
Carolyn Myss
The Fear of the Feminine
– and
The Child
Erich Neumann
The Wisdom of Menopause
Christiane Northrup
Second Sight
Judith Orloff
Her Blood is Gold
Lara Owen
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sandplay: Past, Present and Future
Rie Rogers Mitchell & Harriet Friedman
The Jewel in the Wound
Rose-Emily Rothenberg
The Invisible Partners
John Sanford
Emptiness Dancing
Adyashanti
Digesting Jung
Daryl Sharp
The Goddess in Everywoman
– and
The Gods in Everyman
Jean Shinoda Bolen
The New Male Sexuality
Bernie Silbergeld
The Book of Questions
Gregory Stock
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos
– and
Humanity and the New Story
Brian Swimm
Nurture by Nature
Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron Tieger
Do What You Are
Tieger & Tieger
A New Earth
– and
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Puer Aeternus
Marie Louise von Franz
Symbolic Quest
Edward Whitmont
I Ching Workbook
R.L. Wing
If you are having a psychiatric emergency, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room or urgent care facility.