Joe Girillo, LMFT

My name is Joe Girillo. I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist.

I operate my private practice near Los Angeles, where I provide psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families. I will care about you, your family, and your story. You can trust that I will treat you with respect, dignity and compassion in every interaction, while maintaining the highest standards for integrity and ethics.

I operate my private practice near Los Angeles, where I provide psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families.
I earned my Master’s degree in 2009 in Marital & Family Therapy at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, CA with a heavy emphasis on diversity and anti-bias sensitivity.
I have been involved in the Los Angeles County mental health field since 1999, in acute psychiatric environments since 2004, 7 years at Las Encinas Hospital Pasadena and 7 more at Adventist Health Glendale. This work has included treating patients with a broad spectrum of mental illnesses, from mood disorders to psychosis, active suicidality to chemical dependency and other addictive behaviors just to name a few.
My training at the Georgiana Rodiger Center was primarily in the tradition of Psychodynamic & Object-Relations theory and Family Systems theory, but my approach is “eclectic” in the sense that I work with each client with their type of issue in the way that will best fit their needs, not mine.
Among other modalities, I use dream journaling as a therapeutic tool to understand the interplay between the psychological and spiritual lives of my clients.
I spent the 5 years previous to my hospital work in community mental health, serving homeless teens in Hollywood, incarcerated adolescents at Central Juvenile Hall & underserved communities thru middle school & in-home therapy in Central & East L.A., where I counseled teens in trouble, young adults, and blended family couples.
Please feel free to call, text or email me at any time and I will be happy to return that message as soon as my schedule permits.