Psychotherapy grounded in meaning and growth
A depth-oriented practice for adults navigating trauma, mood disorders, and women's reproductive mental health challenges — integrative, evidence-based, and attentive to the whole person.
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Gabrielle Frackman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in independent private practice. Dr. Frackman obtained her bachelor's degree with honors in Humanistic Healthcare from Brown University and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (with a Health Emphasis) from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the VA Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center (VA LAACC) and a post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Frackman has developed specialties in health psychology, women's reproductive mental health, and trauma. Prior to private practice, she practiced for eight years in the WARM Program at Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Frackman provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy for mood disorders, personality disorders, trauma and stressor-related conditions, as well as psychological issues associated with women's reproductive health. She has broad training in health psychology and the treatment of psychiatric issues in the context of acute and chronic medical conditions. Her theoretical orientation is integrative with a humanistic emphasis on meaning and growth. It is influenced by her extensive training in evidence-based practices including TF-CBT, CPT, PE, ACT, TLDP, CBT, DBT-informed protocols, as well as relaxation training, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She conceptualizes cases and plans treatment based on presenting problems, goals, values, and empirical literature, collaborating with patients to address symptomatology, understand contextual roots, and develop strengths including choice and meaning-making capacities. Her clinical interests include mood disorders, trauma-related issues, and women's mental health (maternal, perinatal, and postpartum), as well as bereavement and loss and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Dr. Frackman has trained at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in the integration of compassion, mindfulness, and embodiment practices, bridging Buddhist psychology with contemporary psychotherapy, as well as completed training at the California Institute of Integral Studies in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
We all have an innate capacity to be resilient. We have only just begun to tap the tools to foster it.
Dr. Frackman is drawn to work that does more than reduce symptoms; she cares about growth, wellbeing, and a sense of expansiveness — using joy, curiosity, and longing to spark aliveness. Her aim is to help people recognize the strengths they already carry, rather than approaching them as problems to be fixed.
She strongly believes in the use of creativity in therapy, particularly when working with trauma. While there are some sequelae of trauma for which we have effective treatments, many still demand adaptations to meet the specific needs of different individuals and their unique life experiences. She values play in therapy and the pivotal role of imagination in envisioning a different life and future — and ultimately, in fostering hope, particularly when one is in pain.
She is especially attentive to intuition — both restoring trust in it after trauma, and utilizing it to inform therapeutic work. Her practice is deeply integrative of the psycho-spiritual domains — the things for which there are sometimes no words but only felt sense.
Much of the beauty of this work, she believes, lives in the human connection between two people. She helps others learn to hold the complications and contradictions of a life, to find new ways to alchemize pain and make meaning from adversity — and, in doing so, to discover the possibility of growth.
An integrative practice with a humanistic emphasis on meaning and growth.
Her work is collaborative and tailored to the individual — shaped as much by each person's goals and values as by the literature, and always in service of understanding and growth. Much of it aims to enhance cognitive flexibility and emotional tolerance, and to create movement around stuck patterns of relating to self, others, the world, and life experience.
Evidence-based
Treatment is informed by evidence-based protocols and tailored to each individual's needs.
Humanistic
Beneath the symptom is a life. The work attends to meaning, context, and growth rather than focusing solely on symptom elimination.
Contemplative
Drawing on contemplative and transcendental approaches to psychotherapy, the work makes room for stillness, embodiment, and the larger questions of meaning that surface alongside healing — integrating psychological, physical, and spiritual dimensions where warranted, in service of a better understanding of distress and a more comprehensive way of addressing it.
- Mood disorders
- Trauma & stressor-related conditions
- Women's reproductive mental health
- Maternal, perinatal & postpartum
- Personality disorders
- Bereavement & loss
- Health psychology & medical illness
- Psychedelic integration
Let's begin with a conversation.
Dr. Frackman offers individual, couples, and group psychotherapy via secure video. She also provides supervision for license-eligible students and consultation for licensed clinicians.
The therapeutic relationship is where growth actually takes root. Dr. Frackman offers a free, brief consultation to explore therapeutic fit — a chance to feel whether this is a partnership in which you can do meaningful work.