Francis Joseph Gallego, LCSW

Francis Joseph Gallego is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California who brings more than 20 years of professional experience to his therapeutic work. He trained and worked across multiple regions - including six years in New York, three years in Hawaii, and over eleven years in California - and integrates that breadth of experience into a culturally responsive approach.

He specializes in supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, addiction, and a range of intimacy and family concerns. He also provides focused work around LGBT and gender-related issues, grief, parenting and fatherhood, career and life transitions, and chronic illness including cancer and HIV/AIDS. His additional clinical interests include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, domestic violence, and coping with chronic pain, illness, or disability.

Gallego emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in therapy and centers cultural humility, diversity, and inclusion in his practice. He attends to how systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma shape individual and family life, and he has specific clinical experience working with women, communities of color, caregivers, and people processing intergenerational wounds.

He individualizes dialogue and treatment plans to meet each person’s specific needs, drawing on a range of approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, psychodynamic and Jungian perspectives, narrative and solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused methods. He frames the decision to seek therapy as a courageous step and aims to provide steady support and therapeutic presence throughout the process.