Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT, PMH-C
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #109947, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, & Founder
Email: Tracy@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (818) 317-0431
Fee: $150
Types of therapy: Individual, couples, and family therapy
Populations: Children, adolescents, and adults
Tracy is currently accepting new clients.
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, 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 clients 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.
Her specialties include working with individuals who have experienced a variety of mental health challenges, such as depression, anxiety, relational conflicts, experiences of trauma, anger, communication challenges, parenting stress, school/career difficulties, life transitions, grief, crises, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, ADHD, LGBTQ+ affirmative, paternal mental health, women's health, maternal mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and many others.
Tracy is a certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional, with a passion for all things women's health/maternal mental health focused. From family planning to childrearing, Tracy enjoys working with women and families throughout their reproductive and family starting journeys. Tracy brings both lived and clinical experience, including difficulty conceiving, high-risk pregnancy, traumatic delivery, fetal abnormalities, pregnancy complications, medical intervention, termination for medical reasons, trauma, and infant/pregnancy loss. After her own experiences, Tracy has become a fierce advocate of maternal mental health, with the goal of supporting and empowering other women and families.
When Tracy is not working, she enjoys crafting, writing, reading, and spending time with her friends, family, and beloved beagles--Molly and Dexter!
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
Check out this blog post Tracy was featured in:
Interview with Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, Therapist and Writer
Check out these podcasts Tracy was featured on:
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
To learn more about Tracy, please visit her Psychology Today profile
Michael Ceccon, M.S., APCC
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #APCC3301
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
Email: Michael@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (619) 663-4377
Fee: $100
Types of therapy: Individual therapy
Populations: Adolescents, adults, and seniors
Michael is currently accepting new clients.
Are you feeling frustrated, confused, stressed, depressed, or lost? 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. In short, therapy can help you adapt and adjust to experiences that can often be challenging and confusing; experiences that you may not always have the skills or insight to address. Therapy is a safe environment where you can process your experience of life and get helpful feedback with a healing perspective.
Michael believes therapy is a space to help you adjust, reattach, and integrate peacefully into the process of living to create wellness. Since a young age, he has always been intrigued by the human condition, and is continually inspired by watching people grow and connect more deeply to themselves and with others.
Michael is a San Diego native, who has spent over 17 years in management and entrepreneurship and is passionate about applying his skills to help others improve their quality of life. Michael studied philosophy as an undergraduate at UCSD and went on to earn his master's degree in multicultural counseling at SDSU. From his experience, he has gained unique insights for understanding how social and internalized systems contribute to unwellness, and lack of integration. In addition to overcoming personal challenges with mental health, he has worked with a variety of populations with different mental health challenges, including many types of trauma and severe mental illness.
Michael's specialties include working with sociocultural and systemic challenges, depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction (with sustained periods of sobriety), coping skills, codependency, career counseling, and performance challenges. He uses an integrative, client-centered approach, to address multiple dimensions of the unique human experience, with the goal of creating peace and wellness.
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
To learn more about Michael, please visit his Psychology Today profile
Molly Dibsy, MSW, ACSW
Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker #ASW92034
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
Email: Molly@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (619) 786-2894
Fee: $100
Additional languages: Spanish
Types of therapy: Individual therapy
Populations: Adolescents and adults
Molly is currently accepting new clients.
Molly holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California. She is also a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator certified through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment, Justice Resource Institute in Boston. She believes in a mind-body approach and that the combination of therapy and yoga can help to reduce symptoms of complex trauma.
Molly’s philosophy stems from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach. In which our thoughts are connected to our emotions, which dictate our behaviors, and lead to various courses of action throughout our lives. Our emotions are formed out of our core beliefs and impact our decision-making on every level. Therefore, in our work together we will begin by identifying core beliefs in order to understand the impact they have on our decision-making, thought patterns, and relationships.
Molly has experience working with a culturally and clinically diverse population of children, adolescents, adults, and families in domestic and international settings. She has worked with refugees, foster youth, domestic violence, substance use, homelessness, and at-risk youth in San Diego, San Francisco, Sonoma, Tel Aviv, and Colombia.
To learn more about Molly, please visit her Psychology Today profile
Svetlana Ishchenko, M.A., AMFT
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #AMFT103613
Supervised by Tracy Gilmour-Nimoy, M.S., LMFT#109947, PMH-C
Email: Svetlana@TGNtherapy.com
Ph: (858) 480-9675
Fee: $100
Additional languages: Russian
Types of therapy: Individual, couples, and family therapy
Populations: children, adolescents, and adults
Svetlana is currently accepting new clients.
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. She went on to obtain advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman methods. 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.
The approaches that Svetlana takes with individuals, couples, and families is based on Attachment Theory. She has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). Svetlana views the central challenge in a distressed relationship as the loss of secure, emotional connection and believes that patterns of negative interactions perpetuate this loss. She has experience working with individuals, couples, children, adolescents, families, and groups in various settings. Svetlana’s specialties include working with individuals with depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, experiences of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, bipolar disorder, anger management, divorce, marital distress, self-esteem, parenting stress, family conflict, women’s health, school/career challenges, peer relationships, romantic relationships, life transitions, 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.
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.
Check out this relationship column Svetlana used to write:
To learn more about Svetlana, visit her Psychology Today profile.
