Dr. Ramirez, a licensed clinical social worker, has over 15 years of clinical experience in various healing settings. His psychotherapeutic approach is informed by love, honor, and respect, and is rooted in the power of relationships and communities.  Throughout his career, he has provided psychotherapy and mental health care to diverse communities, including people living with HIV, LGBTQIA, and BIPOC communities and people struggling with substance use and compulsion. Dr. Ramirez's work focuses on the intersection of identity integration, cultivating psychological flexibility, and developing resilience by embracing one’s true north to move through one's life.

 

Psychotherapy with Dr. Ramirez is relational and centered on co-creating language for unresolved hurts, frameworks for organizing internal pains and resilience, and skills to move through transitions, conflicts, and compulsion.  Dr. Ramirez received foundational training and supervision in relational psychoanalysis from the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis in Philadelphia, completed a fellowship from the Center of Psychoanalysis Philadelphia, and extensive training in 3rd wave behavioral health therapies (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).  He received his master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania (2009), a master’s degree in public health from Drexel University (2012), and a doctorate in behavioral health from Arizona State University (2020). Outside of the psychotherapy space, Dr. Ramirez is a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University’s graduate school of social work, where he teaches courses on couples therapy, decolonizing social work, and queer identity development. He is currently a candidate for the CSAT and received training from The Body Positive on Body Positivity.

 

Clinical Content Areas: GBTQ Men, Masculinity, Body Image, Compulsion, Racial Identity Development, Couples Therapy