Gary Hirshberg received his Masters degree from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. He graduated as a psychoanalyst from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and subsequently received his clinical credentials from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Mr. Hirshberg was one of the founders and the Associate Clinical Director of one of the first mental health agency’s in the U.S. created in response to the AIDS epidemic. In 1992, Mr. Hirshberg opened his own practice in St. Louis. He specializes in work with gay men, artists, patients from diverse cultural & ethnic backgrounds, and adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Mr. Hirshberg has been adjunct faculty at Washington University, St. Louis University, the University of Missouri – St. Louis, the Nashville Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy and the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.