Therapists, Coaches & Organization Development
Note: This list of therapists, coaches and organization development consultants 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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
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.
Randy Baird (she/her), LCSW, BCD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- LBGTQI Individuals
Philosophy:
My practice specializes in assisting people to enjoy richer, more satisfied lives and achieve better relationships with themselves and others. I practice somatic psychotherapy and have an interest in expanded consciousness states.
Contact:
p/ 215-327-2440
e/ [email protected]
w/ randyabaird.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $180-$200
- Sliding Scale: No
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Social Location:
I am a white, cis female, queer, middle class US boomer aged person who is able bodied
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
- Accepting New Clients: Waiting List
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
Debra Brosan (she/her), MA OD, ICF MCC
Client Focus:
- Organizations
- Executive and Leadership Coaching
Philosophy:
My philosophy as a coach and consultant is to simply create space for change, to influence and be aware of urges to control and direct. By creating space for change, trust and experimentation occurs naturally. Our work together always happens within a context, in the environment, and in a system. When I think about systems, I focus on organizational needs and impacts.
Coaching is a learning process. In order to achieve business goals, learning is needed. Real time reflection on the experiences of the leader and coach in the coaching process creates awareness that fosters learning. Curiosity is essential. Questioning, exploring, and experimenting are the ways we raise awareness. Through this process of increasing awareness, the opportunities for higher levels of engagement and productivity are possible. This can impact multiple levels within the system.
Office:
New Hope, PA; Client’s site; Virtual
Contact:
p/ 215-350-1878
e/ [email protected]
w/ gestaltworks.net
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $350-$500
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Social Location:
I am a white, cis-gender female, single, parent & step-parent, eligible for Social Security.
Hilary Cooke (she/her), MS, LPC
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- Substance Use
- Relationships
- Transitions
Philosophy:
In enjoy working with individuals and groups to help clients heal from the effects of alcohol, and substance use, anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma.
Drawing on my experience at various levels of care, I have been effective in aiding clients to regain their peace of mind.
One of my strategies is working with you to improve how you may interact with others using experiential techniques associates with Gestalt Therapy. My hope is to assist you in addressing issues and behaviors that may be a barrier to living your best connected and fulfilling life.
Office:
1010 West Chester Pike, Ste. 303
Havertown, PA 19083
Contact:
p/ 610-580-0811
e/ [email protected]
w/ Psychology Today Profile
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $140-$180
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
Social Location:
White, female, middle-class, able-bodied, parent, in recovery
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
- Accepting New Clients: Waiting List
Social Location:
Cisgender white male past 65 years old
Beth Filla (she/her), MSW, LCSW (NJ and PA), LISW (OH), Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher
Client Focus (in person at my office in Cincinnati, OH; NJ and PA clients through the magic of Telehealth):
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Couples
- LGBTQ+ affirming
- Therapy and Trauma Informed Yoga Sessions
Philosophy:
I’m here to help you notice what you’re feeling, to name sensations and emotions and to be with you as we see what emerges: patterns, memories, long-held beliefs that have maybe never been yours. These things contain your past and will influence your future; but we’ll access them together in the present.
We’ll find ways for you to have more flexibility and choice in how your respond to them.We’ll get curious together. We might move around a little (but we don’t have to). We can use EMDR to get to the root of deeply distressing patterns. We’ll probably breathe, or at least notice if we stop breathing.
This is the brave work of moving fully into your life. It’s big stuff, and I’m so honored to do it with you.
Office:
48 E. Hollister St.
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Contact:
p/ 609-436-0812
e/ [email protected]
w/ presentcm.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: Therapy $120; Yoga $80
- Sliding Scale: Through The Open Path Collective
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
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
- Accepting New Clients: 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
- Accepting New Clients: Waiting List
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Laura Hawley (she/her), LCSW, Lic Acupuncturist
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Supervision Group(s)
- LGBTQI
- Caregiving Professionals
Philosophy:
My approach in therapy is to recognize the other person as whole and to move with them toward recognizing their own wholeness. I have great confidence in people’s ability to move toward a state of balance and health. I draw on Antiracist, Presence, Gestalt, Somatic and Feminist practices. My focus is on the treatment of adults of all genders.
I cultivate compassion, creativity and responsibility with and in the clients I see. We work hard, but kindly, looking at patterns of thought, emotion, energy and action that are stuck in some way – making it difficult to have ease and stability or to make personal or professional transitions.
One of my interests is in care giving, burnout and personal history that may complicate the caregiving role. Past trauma, as well as difficulties inherent in caregiving professions can set people up for personal unhappiness, exhaustion and professional burnout. And yet, there is a lot of energy and potential bound up in this suffering. I am inspired by the unfolding I have witnessed in the people I work with, the unfolding of self confidence, self expression and the enhanced ability to love, work, play and thrive.
Office:
1315 Walnut St., Ste. 1708
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Contact:
p/ 215-545-7040
e/ [email protected]
w/ acuphilly.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $88-$133
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No; Superbills provided on request
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Social Location:
I am a queer woman, gender expansive, white and an American citizen.
David Henrich (he/him), LCSW, BCD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Families
- Couples
Philosophy:
I have been studying Gestalt Therapy for over 50 years, and I still love it. It is a wonderful strength-based, positive approach developed from many schools of thought. A major source is the dialogic work of Martin Buber, and I am grateful to have been introduced to that philosophy. Other interests of mine include: trauma, addictions, major human loss and clinical uses of humor. I am proud to be part of the GTIP community.
Office:
8200 Flourtown Ave., Ste. 8
Wyndmoor, PA 19038
Contact:
p/ 215-233-3994, ext. 21
e/ [email protected]
w/ gksw.com
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $160
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Medicare
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Eric Hoffman (he/him), PhD, JD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups
- Couples
Philosophy:
I make myself available to support clients by creating safety, support and connection within which we can together create challenges to support change and growth.
Office:
131 Cynwyd Rd.
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
Contact:
p/ 610-664-0487
e/ [email protected]
w/ ee.org
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $135-$150
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: No
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
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
- Accepting New Clients: No
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.
Mark Magerman (he/his), PhD, LCSW, BCD
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Groups/Teams
- Supervision Group(s)
- Organizations
- Executive and Leadership Coaching
- Couples
Philosophy:
At each moment we are in a process of evolving from who we have been to who we are becoming. I engage with my clients using an experiential, dialogical and integrative approach to self-discovery and personal growth.
Through compassionate understanding, confirmation of each persons’ uniqueness, attention to present-moment experience and heightened awareness, we can complete what is unfinished from the past, giving way to our emerging creative selves. Understanding how processes can function to sustain disruptive patterns, as well as challenge and support the possibilities for creative problem-solving, can lead to deliberate actions that transform relationships between people, and between people and organizations.
Office:
Aquetong Rd.
New Hope, PA
Contact:
p/ 215-860-9876
e/ [email protected]
w/ gestaltworks.net
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $250-$500
- Sliding Scale: No
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Accepting New Clients: Waiting List
Ginny McIntosh (she/her), MSW, LCSW
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Supervision Group(s)
- Families
- Individual Supervision
Philosophy:
I love the way Gestalt Therapy provides an understanding and deep respect for the self and other people and teaches how to respect the other person in all their difference and likeness. After using and teaching other theories, including object relations, I’m so impressed
how well Gestalt Therapy, with its attention to a somatic and phenomenological approach, works with my clients. I learn from my clients, and I rarely have one leave before they feel real progress. I try to use Gestalt philosophy for my own satisfaction with my life and relationships.
Office:
110 N. Essex Ave., Rear
Narberth, PA 19072
Contact:
p/ 215-280-0866
e/ [email protected]
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $165
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
- Insurance: Medicare, Highmark
- Accepting New Clients: No
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]rtzdevol.com
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Social Location:
I am a white, cis-gender, straight female. I am married and child-free by choice and an American citizen.
Joan Stern (she/her), MA, MSS, , LCSW, MEd
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
- Families
- Couples
Contact:
p/ 610-733-8502
e/ [email protected]
Miscellaneous:
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Offering Virtual Sessions: Yes
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]
Miscellaneous:
- Offering Virtual Sessions: No
- Accepting New Clients: No
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Ann Woodland (she/her), MS Licensed PA Psychologist
Client Focus:
- Individuals/Adults (18+)
Office:
Psychological Associates
2741 Litiz Pike
Lancaster, PA 17603
Contact:
p/ 717-569-8511
e/ [email protected]
Miscellaneous:
- Fee Range: $40-$120
- Sliding Scale: Yes
- Insurance: Highmark, Capital Blue, Aetna, Optum, UHC, Quest, Geisinger, Independent BC, Cigna
Social Location:
I am a white, 65 + year old female, parent, grandparent and Unitarian by faith
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
- Accepting New Clients: Yes
Social Location:
I am a white, working class, first generation, lesbian boomer.