Eliana Gil

Eliana Gil
Born (1948-04-24) 24 April 1948
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Institutions Gil Institute for Trauma and Recovery
Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy
Alma mater California Graduate School of Family Psychology, San Rafael
Known for Family and child therapy, with a focus on trauma and abuse

Eliana Gil RPT-S, ATR (born 24 April 1948),[1] is a lecturer, writer, and clinician of marriage, family and child. She is on the board of a number of professional counselling organizations that use play and art therapies, and she is the former president of the Association for Play Therapy (APT).[2]

Dr. Gil is the senior partner of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also the director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy based in northern Virginia.[3][4]

Early life

Eliana Gil is originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.[3] Gil's parents, Manuel and Eugenia, were both born in Ecuador. When Gil was 14 the family moved to Washington, DC. After high school the family moved again to San Francisco.[5]

Education

Gil attended the California Graduate School of Family Psychology in San Rafael where she gained her doctorate in family therapy.[2] She did her Art Therapy training at George Washington University.[5] She went on be a registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage, Family, Child Counselor.[2]

Early career

Gil has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment since 1973.[6] Gil worked as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor (MFCC) in California and then moved to the East Coast where she became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Virginia. She went on to work for the San Francisco Child Abuse Council initially as a secretary, then as an Administrative Assistant, an Assistant Director and finally, as a Director of two programs in Contra Costa County: The Costa County Child Abuse Council and Gil and Associates.[5]

Gil then moved first to Maryland and worked with Children's Mental Health, and then moved again to work at the Inova Kellar Center and Childhelp Children's Center in Virginia.[5]

Later career

Dr. Gil is the senior partner of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education in Fairfax, Virginia which provides therapy, consulting, and training services.[3][7] Her partners in the private practice are Myriam Goldin, Jennifer Shaw, and Heather Bryan.[8]

The Institute includes the Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy, where Gil acts as director, provides training sessions on family play therapy and specialized therapy for youths who have experienced childhood trauma.[2]

She has written widely on the subject of child abuse, family play therapy, culturally informed play therapy, and related topics, and produced a series of educational videotapes in the area of psychothearpy.[2]

Other roles she has held include working as an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Tech’s Family Therapy Department.[2][9] She has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse. Gil is also a former president of the Association for Play Therapy.[2]

As media consultant

Gil has been consulted by a number of media outlets over the years including the San Francisco Chronicle[10] and KCET.[11]

Interviews

Timothy Dwyer interviewed Gil as part of an article in 2001 for the Journal of Clinical Activities, Assignments & Handouts in Psychotherapy Practice. The article also featured interviews with Richard C. Schwartz and Bill O'Hanlon.[12]

Gil was also interviewed at the end of 2013 by Catherine Ford Sori and Sheryl Schnur for The Family Journal. The interview was printed in two parts, part I in January 2014,[13] and part II in April 2014.[2]

Personal life

In 2014 Gil announced that she would be relocating to Florida and make use of technology to reduce her clinical work and travel schedule. The change was to enable her to focus on her 96-year-old mother.

Gil has four grandchildren and her hobbies include playing tennis.[6]

Bibliography

Books

Chapters in books

Journal articles

References

  1. "Gil, Eliana". Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 July 2014. CIP t.p. (Eliana Gil) data sheet (b. 4-24-48)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sori, Catherine F.; Schnur, Sheryl (April 2014). "Integrating a neurosequential approach in the treatment of traumatized children: an interview With Eliana Gil, part II". The Family Journal (Sage) 22 (2): 251–257. doi:10.1177/1066480713514945. Pdf version, December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Cover Graphic View larger Working with Children with Sexual Behavior Problems - author biography". Guilford Press. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  4. "Biography". Dr. Eliana Gil. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Eliana Gil". LinkedIn. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Welcome". Dr. Eliana Gil. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  7. "Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR". Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  8. "Our team". Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  9. "VT Faculty Authors Recognition 2006 | Liberal Arts and Human Sciences". Virginia Tech, University Libraries. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  10. Lempinen, Edward W. (21 September 1987). "Why Molesters of Young Children Often Go Free". San Francisco Chronicle. p. A2. Retrieved 18 July 2014. Quote: Eliana Gil, a Pleasant Hill psychologist... "I think people are targeting these young children (for sexual abuse) because they know the kids won't be able to qualify in court." Gil ... said a victim in one Marin County sex-abuse case was barred from court because she believed in Santa Claus. That naivete destroyed her legal credibility.
  11. Eliana Gil (28 April 1991). Healing Sexual Abuse (Television production). Lifeguides. Los Angeles, California: KCET. Event occurs at 7.00pm.
  12. Dwyer, Timothy F. (July 2001). "Interviews with Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Eliana Gil, PhD, and Bill O'Hanlon, MS". Journal of Clinical Activities, Assignments & Handouts in Psychotherapy Practice (Taylor and Francis) 1 (3): 79–92. doi:10.1300/J182v01n03_09.
  13. Sori, Catherine F.; Schnur, Sheryl (January 2014). "Trauma-focused integrated play therapy: an interview With Eliana Gil, part I". The Family Journal (Sage) 22 (1): 113–118. doi:10.1177/1066480713505280.

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