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Dr. Joe Gallego is a psychiatrist located in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in working with teenagers, young adults, and adults who experience a variety of mental health challenges. Dr. Gallego is compassionate and empathically attuned, with a clinical approach that is collaborative and nonjudgmental. Whether his patients are navigating challenges academically, at work, within their relationships, or existentially, Dr. Gallego prioritizes understanding his patients' unique needs in order to provide evidence-based treatment in the form of psychotherapy and medication management.
Patients value Dr. Gallego's transparency, humor, and pragmatism. His approach to working with patients is psychodynamic, meaning he examine his relationships with his patients to make clearer sense of their interpersonal world outside of his office. Still, he recognizes that patients benefit from guidance to take actionable steps to improve their quality of life. So long as his patients are motivated to engage in treatment whole-heartedly, they can expect to see results from their work with Dr. Gallego.
Dr. Gallego earned his MD from the Mayo Clinic. He completed his psychiatry residency training at Yale, and subspecialty fellowships in transgender psychiatry at Mount Sinai and child and adolescent psychiatry at Albert Einstein. He has specific interest and expertise in caring for LGBTQIA+ identified patients, but he works with patients of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
Years of Experience: 8 years
ADHD - Skill-building and support around organizational challenges, distracted attention, procrastination; building and maintaining healthy routines and structure
Adolescent mental health - Working with adolescents, teenagers, and parents on social, academic, and/or emotional challenges throughout teenage years; addressing anxiety, family conflicts, peer relationships, school stress, transition to college, social media pressures, self-esteem, hopelessness about the future, emotional disregulation
Autism spectrum disorder - Support understanding the diagnosis and related challenges and strengths; skill-building in areas of daily routine, transitions, coping with overwhelming sensory experiences, social skills, and emotion identification and regulation
College & graduate student mental health - Specialized strategies for common issues of young adulthood, including school and career stressors, support around healthy relationships, existential concerns, drug or alcohol issues, eating disorders, and anxiety and/or depression.
LGBTQIA, gender, & sexuality topics - Exploring topics of sexuality, gender, and identity; coping with discrimination and oppression; navigating relationship, family, and cultural challenges
Trauma - Coping and healing after threatening or scary events, such as witnessing accidents or experiencing sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse
Joe Gallego is not in-network with any insurances.
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