Note: This list of therapists includes our Faculty, Supervisors, Group Facilitators and Alumni who have graduated from our program, or from another Gestalt Therapy training institute. They pay annual dues to be included on this list.
Rachel Allender (she/her), MSS, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Couples
Philosophy
I am highly skilled at helping clients with depression, anxiety, relationships, chronic illness, life transitions and work/life balance. What brings individuals and couples to therapy is complicated and personal. I will meet you where you are, working with whatever you bring through the door and support you to become expert in shaping your own life.
My specialty as a psychotherapist is working with adults for individual and couples counseling. I am LGBTQ affirming.
Office:
845 N. Beechwood St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Contact:
p/ 215-805-6067
e/ [email protected]
w/ Psychology Today Profile
Miscellaneous:
- Fee range: $150-$200
- Sliding scale: Yes
- Offering virtual sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
Social Location:
I am a cis, white, queer woman. I am middle class, disabled (I have chronic non-visible health issues), culturally Jewish, a parent, and an English speaking U.S. citizen.
Karen Barwick (she/her), MSCC, LPCMH, NCC
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Office:
19018 John J. Williams Highway
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Contact:
p/ 302-381-0212
e/ [email protected]
w/ Psychology Today Profile
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $150
- Sliding Scale: No
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Highmark/BCBS, Highmark Health Options
Donna Bayliss (she/her), MA, LPC
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- Couples’ Counseling
Philosophy:
My approach to therapy is based on my belief in the opportunity for healing that can occur in the relationship between client and therapist.
A genuine respect and focus on the uniqueness of each client’s experience is at the heart of my practice. I believe that true healing can occur in relationship where safety and acceptance is established and maintained. Through our work together, a client has the opportunity to explore and experiment with new ways of being as they journey to defining and finding the path to their most authentic, fulfilling self. It is a place to safely explore all that it means to be human.
Office:
525 West Chester Pike, Ste. 314
Havertown, PA 19083
Contact:
p/ 610-449-4004
e/ [email protected]t
w/ donnambayliss.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $70-$120
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
Social Location:
I am a 60-year old white, married, cis-gender female
Gina Carfagno (she/her), MSS, LSW
Client Focus:
- Teenagers (13-18)
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Philosophy:
My passion in life is helping others. I strive to form strong relationships that set the foundation for secure attachment and trustworthy contact. I firmly believe that our connection is life-long and sacred.
I approach therapy by focusing on client strengths and utilize Gestalt Therapy techniques that treat the whole person and honor the importance of the field within the client’s daily life.
I help clients identify interruptions of contact, and support ways to work through and grow from their understandings of how creative adjustments, interruptions of contact and the field all come together to impact daily life encounters, as well as their own thought processes and emotions.
I invite clients to join my present-centered focus, recognizing the best opportunities for growth invite staying in touch with oneself in the present moment. As a Gestalt therapist, I also invite clients to tap into experiential experiments that are often thinking outside the box as ways of helping clients work through challenging issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma, self-esteem, relationship issues, healing attachment conflicts, self-harm behaviors and suicidality. My passion and ultimate goal is to provide all clients with safe, humane, understanding and supportive environments, and to remind them of their integrity and worth.
Office:
14 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Ste. 109
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Contact:
p/ 610-603-6215
e/ [email protected]
w/ Psychology Today Profile
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $130-$200
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Do not accept insurance but provide billing codes and superbills for client to submit to their insurance for reimbursement
Social Location:
I am 36 years old, white, cis-gender female, partially able-bodied, heterosexual, post graduate education, non-practicing Roman Catholic and never married.
Ellen Sandra Cohen (she/her), MT, Continuum Teacher
Client Focus:
- Teenagers (13-18)
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Philosophy:
A life-long dancer, I have also been studying, developing, teaching and practicing body-oriented psychotherapy since the mid-‘70s. In my work I draw from a combination of body and energy techniques, including structural myofascial release, Muscular Therapy, Gestalt Therapy and Continuum.
My experience as an improvisational dancer developed my respect for the sacredness of the moment, the wisdom that can emerge from the unconscious, and the importance of the relationship between client and practitioner. My passion is listening to creative intuition: my own, my clients’, and my students’, to allow the next correct action, movement, sound, idea or insight to emerge clearly.
Office:
82 Greenfield Ave.
Ardmore, PA 19003
Contact:
p/ 610-645-6050
e/ [email protected]
w/ continuumteachers.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $110-$175
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
Social Location:
I am a white, cis-gender female, single, parent & step-parent, eligible for Social Security.
Stephen C. DiJulio (he/his), PhD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Philosophy:
I see my clients as first and foremost persons with strengths and only secondarily as persons with problems or issues. It is important to co-create a safe relationship as well as goals and a plan for moving forward. The plan must be tailored to the needs of the individual client.
At times, I will offer structured materials for building skills that the person may choose to accept or decline. I have a strong interest in inviting chair work to address unresolved trauma and losses.
Office:
405 Foulk Rd.
Wilmington, DE 19803
Contact:
p/ 302-655-1100
e/ [email protected]
w/ behavioralhealthassociatesde.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $100-$140
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Highmark BC/BS, Medicare, Cigna
Social Location:
Cisgender white male past 65 years old
Douglas Graiver (he/him), MSW, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Teenagers (13–18)
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Supervision Groups(s)
- Families
- LGBTQI Couples
- Substance Abuse
Office:
Lambertville, NJ 08530
Contact:
p/ 609-397-5971
e/ [email protected]
w/ Psychology Today Profile
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $150
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
Social Location:
Cisgender male, Caucasian, Gay, Jewish
Catherine Gray (she/her), MSS, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Supervision Group(s)
- Organizations
Office:
426 Haverford Ave.
Narberth, PA 19072
Contact:
p/ 610-667-4770
e/ [email protected]
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $120-$180
Gary Gray (he,him), MAT, Certified Gestalt Coach
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- Families
Philosophy:
My job is to listen to you and learn what is remarkable and wonderful about you in the world, to urge you to see yourself as remarkable and wonderful and to help you discover what is preventing you from being fully engaged in your life.
I believe that wellbeing is enhanced by our ability to be more fully in the here and now. Healing happens when we become aware of how our stories are affecting us right now. We do have to delve into our painful stories but the stories were then and the guilt, anger, sadness and resentment are here and now.
I give my attention to what you say and how you say it. It is not my job to search for hidden, unconscious implications of what you say. I cannot know you by studying the various isolated parts of your life but by getting to know you as a complicated whole person and attending to the relationship of the parts to the whole. I believe this process of discovering, owning and embracing self is the path to healing and growth.
Office:
426 Haverford Ave.
Narberth, PA 19072
Contact:
p/ 610-585-2823
e/ [email protected]
w/ garymgray.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $140
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
Kelly Kampf (she/her), MSW, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- Supervision Group(s)
- Families
Philosophy:
I believe therapy is based on the relationship between therapist and client where the client is the expert on their own lives.
My goal is to provide a collaborative, non-judgmental space where you can work to discover areas of your life where you would like to change, grow, and gently uncover your true self.
I offer two supervision groups per year that are based in developmental somatic and Gestalt theory, with the goal of helping clinicians truly be present with whatever is arising for their clients in any given moment, without desiring to change anything. It is from this place of acceptance that healing can begin.
Office:
501 S. Narberth Ave., 2nd fl.
Merion Station, PA 19066
Contact:
p/ 267-714-3366
e/ [email protected]
w/ venturewithin.org
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $150-$200
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: ComPsych
Social Location:
I am a white, queer, GNC femme person. I am middle class, able-bodied, Buddhist, child-free by choice, neuroatypical, in recovery, and an English speaking U.S. citizen.
Cynthia Schwartz-DeVol (she/her), PhD
Client Focus:
- Teenagers (13-18)
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Philosophy:
We are co-detectives, collaborating and working to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
I am honored to do this work. I love working relationally and supporting individuals to explore how to learn and grow and cope more effectively with whatever might be getting in the way of living a more fulfilling life.
Office:
175 Strafford Ave., Ste One
Wayne, PA 19087
Contact:
p/ 610-825-6468
e/ [email protected]
w/cindyschwartzdevol.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $100-$150
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Independence Blue Cross-Personal Choice, Amerihealth, Keystone, Aetna, United Healthcare/Optum, Medicare, Mental Health Consultants
Janneke van Beusekom (she/her), MSS, LCSW
Client Focus:
I am retired and no longer seeing clients. However, I continue to be active in the Gestalt Therapy community primarily through my roles as a faculty member at the Gestalt Training Institute and my membership in the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy.
Office:
1024 Woods Ave.
Lancaster, PA 17603
Contact:
p/ 717-330-3265
e/ [email protected]
Social Location:
Cis gender, straight, female, 65+, naturalized American citizen (also Dutch and Brazilian)
Naomi Wilansky (she/her), MSS, LCSW, BCD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Philosophy:
We all have parts of self that are either well integrated or not well integrated. Not well integrated parts have competing agendas and are causing conflicts that result in behaviors that we don’t intend or want. The parts of self with competing agendas are more likely formed because of unmet needs through our development; whether because of abuse, neglect or well-meaning caregivers who for one reason or another aren’t able to meet our needs.
The work of therapy is about raising awareness to the unwanted, unintended behaviors (incongruence), and maybe to the source of them so that we are able to make well-informed decisions, accept all of our feelings as valid, adapt to situations that we can’t change and function as the inter-dependent, responsible, joyous, flexible adults that we are.
Office:
706 Oglesby Ave., Ste. 112
Normal, IL 61761
Contact:
p/ 309-825-8818
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $150 for regular 53-60 minute session
- Sliding Scale: No
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Alliance, Tricare
Monika Wysong (she/her), MSS, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Couples
Philosophy:
Going into therapy takes courage, so it’s important that you feel safe, heard and supported by someone who respects you, honors your process, and acts as a compassionate ally on your journey to self-awareness, desired change and a more fulfilling life.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Gestalt Therapist. I use psychodynamic psychotherapy and solution-focused therapy to work with those struggling with anxiety; depression; relationship issues; life transitions; grief and loss; substance abuse; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered issues; blocks to creativity and finding meaning.
I have a Master’s degree from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, where I was the recipient of the Patricia Burland Award for Excellence in Clinical Social Work Practice. I have additional training in mindfulness-based stress reduction, and trauma recovery and empowerment for women. I work with individuals and couples, adolescents and adults.
Office:
8200 Flourtown Ave., Ste. 8
Wyndmoor, PA 19038
Contact:
p/ 215-233-3994
e/ [email protected]
w/ gksw.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: Insurance co-pay
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Accept most insurance plans
Social Location:
I am a white, working class, first generation, lesbian boomer.