Dr. Ralph Gemelli

About Us

I am a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst providing individual psychotherapy, play therapy, couples therapy, pharmacotherapy and psychoanalysis to patients for the following presenting symptoms: anxiety, depression, poor school performance, stuttering, lack of motivation, and finding oneself in relationships with people who are devaluating and/or abusive. My interpersonal focus is to help each patient become aware of what he or she consciously or unconsciously does that prevents the patient from developing developmentally enhancing relationships with significant others. , STUTTERING: I have been successful in treating children, adolescents and adults burdened with the problem of stuttering. To develop stuttering a person must possess a genetically derived physiological vulnerability in the speech mechanism and the, often unconscious anxiety about verbalizing certain thoughts and feelings. Stuttering can be cured when patient. , My overall treatment goal is to awaken patients innate motivation (1) to achieve/reawaken the life goals, aspirations and dreams that were criticized/ignored during their lives, (2) to seek/maintain the available/possible healthy relationships, (3) by identifying and treating the aspects of their mental functioning that prohibit (1) and (2).