Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT, PMH-C
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #109947, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, & Founder
She/Her/Hers
Email: Tracy@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (818) 317-0431
Fee: $225 for the initial assessment (45-60 minutes), $175 per subsequent session (45-50 minutes)
Types of therapy: Individual, couples, and family therapy
Populations: Children, adolescents, and adults
Appointments offered: virtual & select in-person
Availability: daytime and limited evening slots during the week
Tracy is currently accepting new patients.
Since the age of 14, Tracy knew she wanted to become a therapist. She has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has experience working in various settings, including agencies, clinics, hospitals, community mental health, schools, management, and private practice. After several years of working within the mental health field, Tracy had a vision to create a group private practice--a place where therapists want to work, and patients want to come.
Tracy has worked extensively with children, adolescents, families, transitional age youth (TAY, ages 16-25), and adults from varying cultural backgrounds, providing individual, family, co-parenting, couples (related to finances, grief, life transitions, communication perinatal/reproductive mental health, parenting), and group therapy.
She uses a combination of different evidence-based practices, collaboratively tailoring each treatment plan to the individual. She is warm, compassionate, humanistic, and direct when needed. She balances deep empathy with gentle confrontations to help each patient examine room for change and reach their desired goals, while making sure they feel safe, loved, cared for, and supported. She places high value on the therapeutic relationship, utilizing humor and other means of genuinely connecting to deeply learn about each individual.
Her specialties include working with individuals who have experienced a variety of mental health challenges, such as depression, anxiety, relational conflicts, experiences of trauma, medical trauma, chronic illness, anger, communication challenges, boundary challenges, parenting stress, school/career difficulties, life transitions, grief, crises, avoidance, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, ADHD, LGBTQ+ affirmative, children/adolescents, paternal mental health, women's health, maternal/perinatal mental health, reproductive mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), pregnancy/postpartum, fertility trauma, adoption, birth trauma, miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, recurrent loss, infertility (primary and secondary), TTC after loss, pregnancy after loss (PAL), pregnancy after infertility, high-risk pregnancy, NICU families, romantic/sexual intimacy, therapy for high-achievers, therapy for therapists, therapy for healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, etc.), therapy for professionals, working with HSPs (highly sensitive persons), caregivers, and many others.
Tracy is a certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, with a passion for all things women's health, maternal/parental mental health/reproductive mental health focused. From family planning to childrearing, Tracy enjoys working with women, men, individuals, parents, and families throughout their reproductive and family starting journeys.
Tracy brings both lived and clinical experience, including difficulty conceiving, infertility, high-risk pregnancy, traumatic delivery, fetal abnormalities, pregnancy complications, medical intervention, termination for medical reasons, trauma, infant/pregnancy loss, recurrent loss, and pregnancy after loss. Through her own experiences, Tracy has become a fierce advocate of perinatal and reproductive mental health, with the goal of supporting and empowering other women, men, individuals, parents, and families.
When Tracy is not working, she enjoys crafting, writing, reading, baking, shopping, and spending time with her friends, family, and beloved beagles--Molly and Dexter!
Check out this article Tracy wrote for the LA Times:
L.A. Affairs: We were living a fairy tale. Until we left the hospital without our baby
Check out these articles Tracy got published on Scary Mommy:
An Open Letter to My Soulmates
We Had to FaceTime for Her Funeral—on Grief During a Pandemic
I Want My Baby: The Stillbirth That Nearly Claimed My Life
When There Isn’t a Rainbow: Infertility After Stillbirth Is a Gut Punch
Check out this article Tracy wrote for Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss
Check out these guest blogs Tracy wrote:
Let’s Talk Fertility: Facts, Societal Views, and How to Support Those Who Are Struggling
Interview with Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, Therapist and Writer
Check out these podcasts Tracy was featured on:
Thinking About OB/GYN: Dealing With Pregnancy Loss From a Therapist’s Perspective
The Mourning Dove Podcast: Creating a Grief Conscious Community
Taproot Therapy A Mindful Movement: Trauma and Grief in Pregnancy Loss
The Heart of the Matter Podcast: Grief is the Price We Pay for Loving
The Heart of the Matter Podcast: Self-Care, Therapy, and Starting a Private Practice
All the Hard Things Podcast: Trauma, Grief, and the Maternal Mental Health System
Michael Ceccon, M.S., APCC
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #APCC3301
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
He/Him/His
Email: Michael@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (619) 348-5511
Fee: $175 for the initial assessment (45-60 minutes), $125 per subsequent session (45-50 minutes)
Types of therapy: Individual therapy
Populations: Adults
Appointments offered: virtual and in-person appointments
Availability: daytime and evening availability during the week
Michael is currently accepting new patients.
Are you feeling stressed, depressed, frustrated, confused, or unfulfilled? Living a human life means learning to live with the human condition and the challenges that arise as a result--mortality, relationships, conflict, emotionality, suffering, and change. Therapy can help you adapt and adjust to experiences that can be challenging; experiences that you may not always have the skills or insight to address. Therapy is a safe environment where you can process your experience, adjust, reattach, and integrate peacefully into the process of living to create wellness.
I use a combination of evidence-based practices to help collaboratively create individualized treatment plans. My clinical specialties include sociocultural and systemic challenges, depression, anxiety, trauma, codependence, career counseling, coping skills development, improving performance, grief, near-death experiences, end of life, chronic illness, health challenges, chronic stress, masculinity and men’s issues, LGBTQ+ affirmative, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy, substance use (in sustained remission for at least 1 year), and supporting family members of those experiencing substance use and addiction. I use an integrative, culturally-sensitive, client-centered approach, to address multiple dimensions of your unique lived experience, with the goal of increasing awareness, creating peace, and improving wellness.
I’m a San Diego native, who has spent two decades in leadership roles and entrepreneurship, and I am passionate about using my skills to help others improve their quality of life. I studied philosophy as an undergraduate at UCSD and went on to earn my master's degree in multicultural counseling from SDSU. From my experience, I’ve gained unique insights for understanding how social and internalized systems contribute to unwellness and lack of integration, in addition to overcoming my own experiences with mental health. Since a young age, I have always been intrigued by the human condition and I am continually inspired by watching people grow and connect more deeply to themselves and with others.
When not working, I like to spend time being active, meditating, practicing yoga, reading, spending time with family and friends, playing video games, or generally being a nerd.
Check out this article Michael was featured in:
Sharp Health News: A Heart-Stopping Experience
Check out this mental health podcast Michael hosts:
The Heart of the Matter Podcast
Check out this podcast episode Michael did on Masculinity and Mental Health
Svetlana Ishchenko, M.A., AMFT, PMH-C
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #AMFT103613, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
She/Her/Hers
Email: Svetlana@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (858) 480-1822
Fee: $175 for the initial assessment (45-60 minutes), $125 per subsequent session (45-50 minutes)
Additional languages: Russian
Types of therapy: Individual, couples, and family therapy
Populations: children, adolescents, and adults
Appointments offered: virtual, in-person appointments on Thursdays & Fridays
Availability: daytime and late afternoon slots during the week
Svetlana is currently accepting new patients.
Svetlana earned her bachelor of arts degree in Child and Adolescent Development and a minor in International Relations. During her work as an educator, she discovered that barriers to learning in children were often rooted in family turmoil. Her passion for evidence-based approaches in therapy prompted her to pursue a master of arts degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy, a degree which propelled her passion for supporting youth, individuals, couples, and families through all walks of life.
Svetlana has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman methods, and is currently pursuing EFT certification. She is fascinated by the affects of attachment and bonding on interpersonal relationships and has a deep commitment to helping people articulate and address the core issues with which they struggle. She specializes in relational work, and loves working with individuals, couples, and families from a relational lens.
Svetlana has a special place in her heart for supporting individuals who are going through cancer treatment, as well as their families. She interned at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where she conducted research and had the honor of providing therapeutic support to cancer patients and their families, processing complex trauma and grief. Her experience and research, as well as being married to a Surgical Oncologist, underscored the importance of individual and couples therapy for cancer patients, their families.
Svetlana has her Perinatal Mental Health Certification and is passionate about supporting women, men, individuals, and families experiencing fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), pregnancy/infant loss, TFMR, miscarriage, recurrent loss, stillbirth, grief, adoption, birth trauma, pregnancy after loss (PAL), pregnancy after infertility, NICU families, infertility, and parenting stress.
Svetlana is a mom who struggled with postpartum anxiety and OCD with both of her pregnancies, so she knows firsthand how shameful and isolating these experiences can be. Her goal is to support families going through similar challenges, and to provide a place where they feel heard, validated, and supported.
Svetlana has extensive experience working with individuals, couples, children, adolescents, families, and groups in various settings. Her clinical specialties include working with individuals with depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, cancer patients, chronic illness, experiences of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, bipolar disorder, anger management, divorce, marital distress, sexual intimacy, intimacy, romantic/sexual intimacy and relationships, self-esteem, communication, boundary challenges, parenting stress, family conflict, women’s health, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy and infant loss, reproductive mental health, perinatal mental health, paternal mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, healthcare workers (therapists, doctors, nurses, etc.), professionals, school/career challenges, peer relationships, romantic relationships, life transitions, LGBTQ+ affirmative, discernment counseling, co-parenting, and crises.
During both couples and individual treatment, she takes a compassion-based approach to foster understanding, safety, and hope. She has extensive experience working with diverse populations and welcomes individuals of every background into therapy. One of her main goals is to work collaboratively with clients in order to develop resiliency, foster re-connection, and build lasting trust and intimacy. She uses a combination of different evidence-based practices, collaboratively tailoring each treatment plan to the individual.
Svetlana provides a warm and calming presence that will help you feel safe to be yourself in your most authentic form. You can trust that she will be honest and direct when needed, while maintaining a supportive and compassionate stance. She has the ability to lean into moments when necessary, to foster positive changes in your life and to help you achieve your goals in therapy.
When Svetlana is not working, she enjoys going on walks, cooking, exercising, and spending time with her family.
Check out this relationship column Svetlana used to write:
Rainuka Oberoi, M.A., APCC
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #APCC9698
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
She/Her/Hers
Email: Rainuka@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (858) 461-8475
Fee: $175 for the initial assessment (45-60 minutes), $125 per subsequent session (45-50 minutes)
Types of therapy: Individual, couples
Populations: adolescents and adults
Appointments offered: virtual, in-person
Availability: daytime and some evening slots during the week
Rainuka is currently accepting new patients.
Rainuka hails from Canada where she focused on Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, earning her undergraduate degree in Intercultural Communications from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She then earned a master’s degree in Clinical Counseling from Alliant International University in San Diego.
Rainuka grew up in a multi heritage family and identifies as a BIPOC clinician. She is passionate about working with individuals from diverse backgrounds, and practices cultural humility when working collaboratively with each individual, based upon their unique needs and goals.
Rainuka interned at The Elizabeth Hospice where she gained a foundational understanding of how to support those experiencing grief and loss. She has extensive experience and training working with both bereaved and pre-bereaved populations as they navigate the not-so-linear grief process, internal, external, and spiritual changes. Rainuka uses many grief approaches when supporting those who are grieving, such as William Worden's Tasks of Mourning and Post Traumatic Growth Theory.
Rainuka has a special interest in career counseling, and has vast experience working as an entrepreneurial coach and career counselor, helping individuals to navigate career choices, indecision, and explore their professional identities. She has learned that career indecision can be crippling, and encourages people to explore career counseling if feeling unfulfilled, stuck, or anxious in their current work. She takes a narrative approach to career counseling, exploring the individual's story, helping them to make meaning out of it, decrease anxiety, pursue professional and personal goals, and maintain balance.
Rainuka's passions and clinical specialties include grief and loss, trauma, dating and sex after loss, caregiver burnout, perinatal mental health, reproductive mental health, perinatal loss, miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, struggles with fertility, infertility, birth trauma, NICU families, perinatal trauma, adoption, career counseling, adult ADHD, anxiety, depression, identity crisis, life transitions, parenting stress, working with healthcare providers (therapists, nurses, doctors, etc.), men's issues, women's issues, and LBGTQ+. Rainuka enjoys working with couples related to finances, grief, life transitions, communication perinatal/reproductive mental health, parenting. Rainuka’s goal is to support individuals as they discover or rediscover their authentic self and life’s purpose.
Rainuka has received advanced training in perinatal and reproductive mental health, and is currently in the process of obtaining the necessary clinical experience to obtain her Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C.) Her own personal experience with infertility, fertility treatments, miscarriage, TMFR, and adoption gives her a unique perspective into the reproductive trauma individuals and couples face while trying to balance the complex cycle of hope and despair.
When Rainuka is not working, she still volunteers at The Elizabeth Hospice as a grief counselor. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Diego.
Gabi Kass, M.S., APCC
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #APCC8011
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
She/Her/Hers
Email: Gabi@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (858) 754-9069
Fee: $175 for the initial assessment (45-60 minutes), $125 per subsequent session (45-50 minutes)
Additional languages: Spanish
Types of therapy: Individual
Populations: children, adolescents, and adults
Appointments offered: virtual, in-person
Availability: evenings and limited Saturday availability
Gabi is currently accepting new patients.
Gabi earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, and then went on to earn her master’s degree in School Counseling with a concentration in cultural diversity and clinical counseling. Gabi identifies as a BIPOC clinician, is bilingual English/Spanish (ESL), and has a passion for supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds, through different stages of life.
Gabi worked as a school counselor at an International High School, where she had the honor of supporting immigrants and refugees. Gabi welcomes conversations about race, culture, ethnicity, and religion into the therapeutic space so that clients can feel heard and understood, while also processing important aspects of identity.
Gabi has extensive experience working with children (including littles), adolescents, and adults in various clinical settings. Her clinical specialties include working with individuals , with anxiety, depression, ADHD, sports performance psychology, pressures of being a competitive athlete, anger, experiences of trauma, life transitions, grief, career/school, cultural identity, relational challenges, communication, boundaries, immigrant/refugee status, LGBTQ+ affirmative, children with learning difficulties, emotional dysregulation in kiddos, parenting stress, perinatal/reproductive mental health, maternal mental health, paternal mental health, pregnancy, postpartum, PMADS (perinatal mood and anxiety disorders), pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, recurrent loss), PAL, birth trauma, infertility, high-risk pregnancy, fetal abnormalities, and teen pregnancy support.
Gabi loves supporting women, individuals, and families through their reproductive journeys, and has plans to pursue her PMH-C (Perinatal Mental Health Certification.) She understands that the road to parenthood does not always go as planned. Whether that be through difficulty TTC, NICU families, pregnancy and/or birth complications, pregnancy loss, or rough postpartum periods, she deeply understands that becoming a parent is not how we were typically taught it would look. As a mom herself, she knows intimately that parenthood is not always magical and perfect--it can bring up some unexpected feelings like crying frequently, feeling overwhelmed, feeling depressed, feeling disconnected, feelings of guilt/blame, identity shifts, impacts to self-esteem, body image concerns, having scary thoughts, having negative thoughts, lack of support, relational challenges, and general difficulties with adjustment to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum periods.
As a former, college volleyball athlete, Gabi knows the pressures and drive it takes to to make it as a competitive athlete. She loves supporting fellow athletes, helping them to explore how to manage the pressures of functioning at a high level, self-esteem, body image, balancing of other responsibilities/interests, performance under pressure, emotional regulation during competitions, impacts to relationships, self-care, managing complex team dynamics and relationships, managing self-expectations and/or perceived expectations of others, and self-advocacy.
Gabi's clinical style is humanistic, warm, and collaborative, and she prides herself on being able to build rapport authentically and quickly. Whether she's connecting with youth through memes, videos, sports, books and music, or with adults through shared interests and human experiences, she uses a combination of evidenced-based practices and mindfulness techniques to tailor each treatment plan to the individual. As an athlete and someone who is currently pursuing her yoga teacher certification, Gabi loves incorporating body movement and relaxation techniques into therapy.
Gabi provides a space to talk through the difficulties and offers tools that can be used in daily life to lessen the load of whatever it is you are carrying. When Gabi is not working, she can be found playing toy cars with her son, hiking at various trails around San Diego, and dancing to Latin music.
Rebecca Antuna, BA
Office Manager
She/Her/Hers
Email: Info@TGNtherapy.com or Rebecca@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (805) 409-7457
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Rebecca is a Southern California native who attended San Diego State University where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. She has always had a passion for helping others and at one point planned on becoming a therapist herself. Through motherhood, starting and growing her own business, and caretaking those around her (including her many, many plants and cats), she fell in love with nurturing and supporting others, which has given her purpose, kept her grounded and fulfilled, and continued to keep her humble.
Rebecca joined the TGN team so that she could carry on and continue to do what she does and loves best—supporting others. In her role as office manager, she provides auxiliary support to the clinical team and all of our patients. Whether it be through administrative tasks, case management, or facilitating the referral and intake processes—Rebecca is your go-to gal! She handles all the details and logistics to coordinate care and ensure that everything runs smoothly.
When she is not working, Rebecca is hanging out with (and also still taking care of) her husband, two teenage sons, five cats, and her ever growing collection of nearly 200 houseplants (yes, 200!)
Rebecca is available to support you and answer any questions that you have, either via email or telephone.