SEATTLE PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS PLLC.
GARY GRENELL Ph.D.

Dr. Gary Grenell currently practices psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychological testing at his office on Madison Street in Seattle. Dr. Grenell is on the clinical faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He has also served on the Core Faculty of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (SPSI) since 1998. Dr. Grenell served as chairperson of the faculty at SPSI from 2004-2006.

Dr. Grenell has been a licensed psychotherapist since 1980. In that year he received his California Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor's license. Then, in 1983 he returned to graduate school to receive additional training in clinical psychology. His APA approved predoctoral psychology internship was at University Hospitals of Cleveland, the primary teaching hospital of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.

In 1987 he completed his doctoral dissertation research entitled, "The Relationship Between Early Physical Abuse and Object Relations of Latency Aged Children," and was granted his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University, in San Diego, California.

He then completed two programs of post-doctoral training. Between the years 1987 and 1988 he completed a Postdoctoral Practicum in Child Clinical Assessment at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center in Los Angeles, earning a certificate in Child Diagnostic Assessment. During the years 1986-1988 he was a Postgraduate Associate at Wright Institute Los Angeles where he received a certificate in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Then, from 1989-1990 he was employed at the Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center in Los Angeles, as a Staff Psychologist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

In 1990 he moved to Seattle and was granted his Washington Psychology License(PY1371). He then completed a postdoctoral course of study, graduating the Program for Clinical Psychoanalytic Training of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1998. He is board certified in Psychoanalysis by the American Psychoanalytic Association.