About Evan Ganick

Hi, I’m Evan. I’m a licensed psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in California, New York and Florida. I practice psychoanalysis and short-term trauma therapies, train at Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, and teach mindfulness. I’m based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and see clients by secure video across LA, New York City, and the rest of California, New York and Florida.

 

I founded Rule Out Therapy because too many people with layered internal conflicts get offered surface-level solutions. My approach is to rule out medical, psychiatric, developmental, relational and existential contributors before arriving at conclusions, and then to keep going: toward the unconscious patterns underneath the symptom.

 

“I’m interested in the gap between the life people are living and the one they actually want.”

 

WHO I WORK WITH

Creative, curious, and stuck in a pattern

 

Mostly creative, curious men in their late teens through 30s: musicians, actors, filmmakers, writers, founders and business owners, and people in tech. Common threads include:

• Anxiety and creative block

• Identity, sexuality and intimacy

• Trauma, recent or long past

• The sense of being stuck in a pattern you already understand

 

I also see couples, and offer consultation and supervision to other clinicians.

 

Before private practice, I worked extensively with combat veterans and LGBTQ+ people in high-acuity settings. That work taught me to sit with intensity without collapsing it into something simpler.

 

HOW I THINK

Depth, with rigor

 

My orientation draws on psychoanalytic theory, Jungian psychology and existential philosophy, alongside contemporary diagnostic standards and evidence-based trauma work such as EMDR. Sessions are direct, curious, and occasionally funny.

 

BACKGROUND

Before this work

 

Before becoming a therapist I spent years in India studying religion and music, then ran a sheep farm in Tennessee. I still play banjo, make things, and keep a small rural farm.

 

TRAINING & CREDENTIALS

Credentials

 

• Master of Social Work, University of Southern California

• BA, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara

• Psychoanalytic training, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute

• Mindfulness teacher

• Licensed in California, New York & Florida

 

WORKING TOGETHER

Start with a free 15-minute consult

 

• Weekly therapy: $225

• Psychoanalysis: $180 per session, three times a week

• Couples therapy: $275

• Out-of-network; superbills provided