FAQs

Brad Gilmore Therapy is located on Carthay Circle, between Beverly Hills and Miracle Mile. Here’s the address:

6310 San Vicente Boulevard
Suite 360
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Sessions are 50 minutes long (45 for adolescents and teens).

My fee is $250 for adults and $275 for couples, adolescents, and teens.

Depending on availability, I also offer an option that adjusts your fee to your income level (sliding scale).

I do not bill insurance directly, so I am considered out of network.

However, I’m happy to provide you with a “Superbill” receipt to submit to your insurance if you have any out-of-network benefits or a Health Savings Account (HSA) you would like to use.

Let’s have a chat to see if we’re a good fit to work together. I offer a free phone consultation to anyone living in California or abroad outside of the U.S.

We can talk about what brings you to therapy at this time and what you’d like to work on together. Based on our chat, if you’d like to move forward, we’ll set up a first session.

From there, based on our joint interest in working together, we’ll set a time for weekly therapy, starting your journey.

I have a 24-hour cancellation policy. If you need to cancel within 24 hours of your appointment, I’ll offer a time to reschedule, if available.

Spending time talking to someone trained and motivated to help you can be rewarding, surprising, difficult, and transformative.

It’s important to find a therapist you feel comfortable sharing important parts of your life with. I recommend meeting with more than one therapist to find the best fit for you.

If we’re not the right match, I’ll offer you a referral to trusted therapists to ensure you find the best treatment.

Given this is your therapy, the length of time centers largely around you. That said, this type of therapy can take time, especially as you discover new areas to grow and develop.

A good rule of thumb: If you feel stuck, wondering what the point of going to therapy is, bring this up with your therapist. Their answer and your intuition will help you determine when it’s time for a break.

You’re here because you recognize something you’d like to change or learn about yourself. Just by being here, you recognize that things CAN change (or you’d like to believe this). That’s an important first step.

By asking the question, you’ve already dislodged an obstacle. Now, with a bit more room for air and movement, you can begin, with my help, finding the next obstacle that awaits.

If you desire change and commit to doing the work and challenging yourself, you will change.

I work with men, women, teens and adolescents … ages 10 and up.

For the first few sessions, I ask more questions about your history and expectations of therapy as we get to know each other. Afterward, we’ll start sessions wherever your thoughts and feelings are in that moment.

I often check in to see how you’re feeling about me and therapy as a way to better understand how our relationship might parallel relationships outside of therapy. Overall, my interest is in locating where you are at any given moment, moving only at a speed that feels comfortable to you.

I practice “psychodynamic” therapy, which means we spend time exploring the “dynamics” of your childhood and adulthood, such as relationships with parents, siblings, friends, and love interests. Patterns developed early on in your “psyche” often influence current relationships and struggles.

Awareness leads to growth, sometimes grief, and creating new patterns that spring from your choices rather than templates created in childhood.

• Chat GPT provides quick, well reasoned answers crowd-sourced based on prior users interactions and information available via search engines.  It’s great - I use it in my practice to help organize my thoughts, set up structured talks, and check my sources when doing research.  And it provides some very helpful and, at times, sensitive answers to therapeutic questions.

• However, our patterns, our old hurts, the difficulties that began long ago and persist today - they were formed in relationship with other people.  

• To heal those old hurts requires a relationship with another person - in this case, a therapist providing a unique space to work out old conflicts.  

• To get to the root of our issues requires careful, flexible intuition as each of us has a dynamically different childhood with infinitely diverse nuances, feelings, memories and dreams.

• Gathering information artificially, while impressive in its speed and scale, doesn’t provide the healing experience that being vulnerable in the presence of another allows.  

• While being vulnerable in the presence of another can elicit intense feelings and reactions, it’s this difficulty that leads to real lasting growth - the kind of growth that both heals and spurs you toward the change you’ve been seeking.  

• AI will continue to improve and appear ever closer to reality.  But it won’t be able to fully replace the unpredictable, difficult and scary (growth-inducing) contact that occurs with a therapist trained and motivated to listen to you, notice you, and wonder with you about your deepest questions and fears while helping you figure out what kind of person you want to become and how to get there.  

One other important aspect: 24/7 interaction and feedback supplied by AI can be comforting, and is pretty remarkable.  However, working through the therapist’s lack of availability (very different from AI), the feelings this can produce, is a vital part of the process.  After all, the most important people in your life are similarly not always available like AI (physically and emotionally) and working this way with a therapist helps improve your outside relationships - which will always lack the precision and availability of a machine.

I graduated with a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles.

While attaining my licensure in California, I completed two years of training at The Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills and two years at The Saturday Center for Psychotherapy in Santa Monica, CA.

In addition, I trained and studied under Dr. Victoria Curea and Dr. Margaret Matson, two of Los Angeles’s most respected psychoanalysts for adults and children, respectively.

Prior to becoming a therapist, I was a casting director in Hollywood for 15 years, helping actors with their anxieties and fears in order to deliver their best performances.

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