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Brian Stachowiak

We are excited to welcome Brian Stachowiak as the Interim Director for APP.

Brian Stachowiak (pronounced “Stuh-ho-vee-ack”) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, in private practice in Silverlake, California with more than a decade of experience helping LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities with issues ranging from depression, addiction, low self-esteem to trauma and characterological overlays. 

As a gay man born and raised in an impoverished ghetto of suburban Los Angeles in the 1970s, he witnessed firsthand the social and systemic impact on LGBTQ+ identities, which fueled his passion for psychological activism and depth psychology. Specializing and trained in LGBTQ+ affirmative psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Jungian depth psychology, Brian uses that experience as well as his own 25-year personal analysis, as framework to conceptualize casework from an archetypal perspective which incorporates myth and meaning into lived experiences so that queer folks can begin to see their contributions to the collective and realize their own self-agency and individuation journey. Brian is also adjunct faculty and part of the Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA where he teaches coursework in clinical practice, human sexuality and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Brian completed the two-year Adult Psychotherapy Program at NCP and subsequently taught coursework in the program. He is a frequent guest-lecturer at multiple UC campuses in Southern California focusing on topics related to warded-off affect, non-verbal cues, enactments and their relevance to working with marginalized communities. Brian currently serves on the NCP Board of Directors in his capacity as chair of the diversities and sociocultural inequities committee, which serves in an advisory role to NCP on issues related to race, gender, sexual orientation, ability and other aspects of marginalization.