Grief Therapists in University City, Philadelphia, PA

Many of us were conditioned into survival strategies that separate us from ourselves due to living and being raised inside oppressive structures and dynamics. This separation can create the belief that there is something wrong with us, as though we are unworthy or unlovable, leading to cycles of shame, numbing, anger, fear, and grief. I seek to create a space for compassion and curiosity that allows these feelings to be explored and held. This process can help us to move beyond stagnant patterns of hurt that limit our growth, potential, and love. It can help us make more conscious choices on how we wish to engage with life.

My work is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and connection. I come to clinical social work with a deeply held belief that all people are deserving of care and I have seen how a safe and collaborative therapeutic relationship can offer support when that care has been challenged. I know that part of healing means acknowledging and working beyond the systems that have caused harm and that this involves actively employing an anti-oppressive lens that refuses to pathologize trauma survival. I understand my clients are the experts on their experiences and I am committed to creating a practice that affirms people of all backgrounds.

Dr. Sara J. Corse is a dynamic clinical psychologist with over 30 years experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She has an engaging style, deep empathy and is effective and efficient in helping clients resolve and heal troubling emotions and relationships. Her approach is integrative and includes EMDR, a therapy proven effective for treating clients impacted by trauma that interferes with life and relationships. If you are worried about conflict or distance in your relationships, struggling with depression or anxiety, feeling overwhelmed or stuck during a period of life transition, therapy can help.

“Grief is akin to praise; it is how the soul recounts the depth to which someone has touched our lives.” Together we can navigate grief and offer support and strategies to process and integrate your experience. Not to move ON, but to move WITH. Loss is interwoven with many of life’s challenging experiences, not only in death, but break-ups, job transitions, growth in our gender and identity, estrangement, and more. They’re all open for discussion in our time together. I love working with queer, non-monogamous, kinky, eldest daughters, and punk folks, but I welcome all types of humans who feel like we could connect.

Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed by multiple worries and anxious thoughts? Perhaps you even think, “If only I can have one day of happiness and peace?”It may be that the demands of caregiving are causing you to neglect your own health and well being.” The good news is that you do not have to struggle in isolation. I would love to partner with you and together build skills to weather life’s storms.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with close to 20 years of helping professional experience. My hope is as your therapist to be a breath of fresh air during this difficult time.

I'm a licensed therapist in Pennsylvania and have worked as a community based therapist for one decade. I've treated individuals of all ages and their families, addressing issues like managing and healing from conflict, anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and grief. My approach as a therapist is an integrative one. I pull from all my knowledge and evidence based theories/interventions to offer skills, information, and techniques that are unique to your needs.

I believe that everyone has strengths--and that everyone encounters challenges. During difficult times, I can help you find new ways of understanding what's happening, additional resources for support and enhanced coping skills that build on your existing strengths. I work primarily with adults, individually, in couples or as families.

Are you looking for a counselor to partner with you to work on your emotional and mental health? Do you feel most comfortable with a conversational and non-judgmental environment to work on concerns related to life change, anxiety, communication, or loss? My practice offers this approach and environment to help you through the everyday, while allowing you to learn coping skills and techniques for your lifetime. Part of self-care is learning to take time for improving you....is that time now? If so, I would love to be a part of your journey!

Therapy is a unique and personal experience. Whether this is your first time considering therapy, or you are moving into a new phase of your therapeutic journey, therapy is a safe space for self-exploration, growth, and discovery. I work psychodynamically and relationally, within a multicultural framework. I have worked extensively with young adults, adults, and couples in a wide range of settings. My areas of specialty are anxiety, depression, and other mood concerns; grief, loss, and bereavement; life transitions; relationships and family issues; and disordered eating and body image concerns.

Because you will be putting a good deal of time, money, and energy into therapy, you should choose a therapist carefully. I believe you should feel comfortable with the therapist you choose, and hopeful about the therapy process. When you feel this way, therapy is more likely to be helpful to you. I have more than 20 years helping people work through grief and loss, life transitions, relationship struggles, career indecision, anxiety and depression. In addition, I have considerable experience helping individuals struggling with issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

My goal is to allow client to openly address their levels of fear, depression and issues relating to their disorder. Many factors from past encounters result in high levels of depression and mental health conditions. My goal is to allow my client to address these fears and use my services as a three stage process to function independently with the least amount of medication and therapeutic interventions as possible. My overall goal is to address condition using alternative therapeutic problem solving interventions, while at the same time helping them to make changes based on their current condition. Phone session is free!!!

Pamela Schade, LPC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania and is board certified. Pamela has 20 years of experience in assisting many people in need (children, adults, and seniors) who have struggled with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, addictions, low self-esteem, mental illness, grief & loss, trauma, and anger issues. Pamela earned her Masters of Science Degree in Counseling from Texas A&M University. She focuses on individual and couples' counseling. Pamela offers individual counseling and marital counseling for enhancing relationships, decreasing marital discord, increasing trust, improving conflict management, decreasing worry and anxiety, and lessening the burden of having irrational thoughts, negative thinking, and irritable moods. What is the root of our problems? Why do we have feelings? What is the importance of having feelings? We have feelings so we can connect with one another. Human beings are social beings who need support from the people in their lives.

I offer psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to individuals and groups in a positive, safe, non-judgmental environment. My goal is to provide the right balance of support and challenge to help each client work, play and love to the fullest of his or her potential. I frequently work with clients who have experienced early wounding as well as those having difficulty with transitions in relationships, aging, loss, or end of life. I enjoy work with artists seeking to free creative energy. I see each client as unique and our work together as an exploration of what is possible, desirable and achievable.

If you are feeling worried or depressed about problems or transitions in your life, be assured that you will be met with warmth, care, and respect. As a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience, I can help you with depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, caregiver stress, trauma, body image/eating disorders, grief and loss, insomnia and challenging life transitions.

Figuring it out often feels like waiting for the world to pause so we can catch-up and the pieces finally fall together. As you well know, those pauses often are not long enough and can lack the kind of tools, insights, and support needed. We are then left asking, what else is there? I believe that these curiosities, feeling all that we do, is meant to connect us to our true self by learning to know ourselves in every way and love ourselves deeply. The journey of growth and healing involves the use of many different tools, a powerful one being the tool of therapy.

My professional specialty lies at the intersection of grief, career, and mental health counseling. I welcome the opportunity to support clients facing challenges, decisions, or transitions that relate to any one of those areas, and thrive when working together to tackle more. Imagine a triangle with grief (coping with loss), career (exercising our strengths), and mental health (balance and contentment) concerns as its three points. I believe everyone has a triangle of different shapes and sizes with these same three points, and my counseling work strives to help clients reshape their triangles into the form that meets current needs.

As you begin your journey to self healing I would like to be an empowering support person for you. I believe we all have personal strengths and the resilience to overcome life’s challenges. My goal is to create a safe space where you feel comfortable sharing and working through issues and concerns that you are facing. I believe in listening to one’s story and validating feelings. I have several years experience working in grief and loss and chronic illness. Past losses if not dealt with will present itself throughout life when other losses occur.

Therapy is uniquely centered on you. When talking with others, their motives, stresses, & opinions may hinder their understanding and helpfulness to you. As a therapist, my focus is on you, not me. What change do you want in your life? What are the hopes and dreams you want to make happen? How do you need help? What do you want? I see my role as coming alongside you, helping you discover what you need, and helping to make that happen. With 15+ years of clinical experience, I aim to help you feel genuinely understood. I offer a safe space for growth and healthy decision-making, supporting you in achieving your goals.