Fred Gioia, M.D.
Dr. Gioia is a licensed, board-certified adult psychiatrist and graduate psychoanalyst practicing in Dallas. He takes a comprehensive, integrative approach to treatment, offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy, formal psychoanalysis, and medication management when indicated. He works collaboratively with patients and their broader care teams — therapists, physicians, dietitians, and others — and specializes in treating depression, anxiety, panic, trauma, and adult ADHD, as well as work- and relationship-related stressors.
Dr. Gioia believes the ultimate goal of therapeutic work is not only to relieve suffering but to promote greater fulfillment in life. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy pursues these goals by developing deeper self-awareness and by using the therapeutic relationship itself as a window into an individual's mental life. His clinical approach is informed by an ongoing engagement with neuropsychoanalysis and affective neuroscience — the study of how emotion, memory, and the brain shape our inner lives — bridging contemporary brain science with the depth and nuance of psychoanalytic understanding.
For appropriate patients engaged in ongoing psychoanalytic therapy with him, Dr. Gioia also offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Rather than treating ketamine as a standalone intervention, he integrates it within the established therapeutic relationship, where the deepened access to emotion, memory, and meaning it can provide becomes material for the ongoing analytic work. This approach draws on his grounding in both psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis, and on emerging research suggesting that the benefits of ketamine are most enduring when held within a sustained psychotherapeutic process.
Beyond his practice, Dr. Gioia serves as Curriculum Chair of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, where he teaches and is the curriculum chair. Internationally, he chairs the International Psychoanalytical Association's subcommittee on artificial intelligence, guiding the profession's engagement with AI and their implications for mental life. He is also a clinical instructor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Gioia earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in applied cognition and neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his medical degree from Texas A&M Health Science Center and completed his psychiatry residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he emphasized the integration of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.
Dr. Gioia does not accept insurance; patients may wish to check with their carrier regarding out-of-network reimbursement.
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