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Psychotherapist & Psychoanalyst
Services Provided
Psychotherapy
Focuses on alleviating symptoms and helping navigate through specific life challenges, such as divorce, managing career crises, or adjusting to significant life transitions.
Psychoanalysis
3 to 5 sessions weekly over a prolonged period, possibly months or even years. The primary goal of psychoanalysis is to explore the deep-seated roots of psychological symptoms.
Psychological evaluation for immigration cases
VAWA
Waiver
Hardship
Asylum
U Visa
Consulting
Unique and insightful perspective on issues related to leadership, relationships, behavior, and relational organizational dynamics.
License | Certification | Registration
NY 001188 - NJ 48PA00005300 - VT 0980133630 - UK MBACP387671
20 years of clinical experience
I work with my clients to uncover the unconscious conflicts that may be holding them back from living their best life. By utilizing a therapeutic approach rooted in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic perspectives, my goal is to help patients understand how their early relationships and experiences are shaping their present-day thoughts and behaviors. I believe that examining the unconscious, understanding how one's experiences have affected life, and finding new meanings for conflicted thought processes is the key to dealing with emotional pain and mental conflicts.
Couples Therapy
My approach to couples therapy is focused on the constructions of object relations from childhood and how this affects and influences relationships and behavioral patterns. This approach is structured in 20 sessions and 5 levels of clinical work.
Recent publications
Article
New article about religious trauma coming soon. Expected to be published in October.
About me
I’m a psychoanalyst with 20 years of clinical work and over 10 years as a training and supervising analyst. Currently in private practice in NYC and Montclair, NJ. Director of Psychoanalytic Training at Blanton-Peale Institute in NYC, where I also teach psychoanalytic diagnosis. Clinical supervisor at Blanton-Peale Counseling Center in New York and clinical supervisor in the PhD in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Exeter in the UK. Full member, training, and supervising analyst at The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.
I’ve worked in various academic positions, teaching psychology of education, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in Brazilian universities. I also worked as the director of graduate programs in a public college and as the president of a public university in Rio de Janeiro. I’ve worked as the staff for clinical professionals in 5 public mental health service units in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
My research interests and academic work focus on object relations theory and clinical practice, post-bionian perspectives and analytic technique, virtuality and its impact on free association, representation, and imagistic thinking in the analytic process, and religious trauma.
I’ve published two books in Brazil, Tensão Pré e Pós Embarque, a Vida Emotional do Homem Offshore, and Planejamento da Educação Brasileira, Uma perspective histórica Filosófica.
Academic and clinical training
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Ph.D. in Psychotherapy Science, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna - Austria.
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Doctor of Ministry Degree, Boston University, Boston - USA.
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Postgraduate Degree in Mental Health, Iguaçú University, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
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Psychoanalytic Training Certificate, Escola de Psicanálise do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
Memberships & Affiliations
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APsA - American Psychoanalytic Association - IPA Regional Component.
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Florida Psychoanalytic Center - APsA/IPA Institute.
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New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.
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Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute.
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NAAP - National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
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BACP - British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy.
What other mental health professionals say about Dr. Gomes
"I am pleased to endorse Dr. Marcelo Gomes, an experienced psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with a remarkable track record of helping patients achieve a profound personal growth through a compassionate approach that fosters trust and openness."
Dr. Leonardo Batista, MD, FAPA
Psychiatrist
Tauton, MA
"Dr. Gomes is a caring and dedicated individual, two of the most important characteristics in an analyst. He is also a wonderful human being, which is probably the most important characteristic an analyst can have. I recommend him wholeheartedly."
Dr. Fernanda Sofio, PhD, FIPA
Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalyst
Princenton, NJ
"Dr. Gomes is a psychotherapist committed to the personal growth of his patients. He has published in refereed journals and is the director of a psychoanalytic program in NYC. In addition, he's speaks various languages and is attune to cultural differences."
Dr. Francisco Danielsen, PhD, FIPA
Psychoanalyst & Psychotherapist
New York City, NY
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