Therapists in West Chester, PA
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Maria Christina Salomone Gabelberger
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
West Chester, PA 19380
With over 30 years of experience, I offer you a compassionate listening heart AND a wealth of research-based tools. Extensive experience with anxiety, relationships, trauma, career and college issues, depression and life transitions. I am LGBTQ+ affirming & a member, sex positive, culturally inquisitive. Some tools I offer are: compassionate inquiry, guided meditation, hypnotherapy, IFS, EMDR, CBT, nature-walk therapy and yoga therapy and many more.
With over 30 years of experience, I offer you a compassionate listening heart AND a wealth of research-based tools. Extensive experience with anxiety, relationships, trauma, career and college issues, depression and life transitions. I am LGBTQ+ affirming & a member, sex positive, culturally inquisitive. Some tools I offer are: compassionate inquiry, guided meditation, hypnotherapy, IFS, EMDR, CBT, nature-walk therapy and yoga therapy and many more.
Online Therapists
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Saumya Kaup Davis
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Philadelphia, PA 19122 (Online Only)
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed and Board-Certified Therapist in Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Carolina with over 10 years of professional work experience. I am a certified, as well as a lifelong, practitioner of meditation and yoga. My clinical experience comes from providing direct mental health and behavioral counseling for young children, teens, and adults with a variety of presenting issues including stress/anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family issues, trauma recovery, racialized and intergenerational trauma recovery, mood instability, ADHD and gender identity.
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed and Board-Certified Therapist in Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Carolina with over 10 years of professional work experience. I am a certified, as well as a lifelong, practitioner of meditation and yoga. My clinical experience comes from providing direct mental health and behavioral counseling for young children, teens, and adults with a variety of presenting issues including stress/anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family issues, trauma recovery, racialized and intergenerational trauma recovery, mood instability, ADHD and gender identity.
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Jane Ajaya
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSEd, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Doylestown, PA 18901
If you find discord between different parts of yourself and between you and people or situations in your life, consider embarking on this journey to personal freedom and self-discovery. This work is about finding your own inner balance and resolution and feeling free to express your authenticity. I work with mood disorders, anxiety, sleep, stress, family and relationship conflicts, compulsions and addictions. I use my own mix of many theoretical and practice techniques in the service of your resolution, integration and wholeness, with special expertise in relationship counseling, spirituality and gender issues.
If you find discord between different parts of yourself and between you and people or situations in your life, consider embarking on this journey to personal freedom and self-discovery. This work is about finding your own inner balance and resolution and feeling free to express your authenticity. I work with mood disorders, anxiety, sleep, stress, family and relationship conflicts, compulsions and addictions. I use my own mix of many theoretical and practice techniques in the service of your resolution, integration and wholeness, with special expertise in relationship counseling, spirituality and gender issues.
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Somatic Therapists
How does somatic therapy work?
Somatic therapy is a form of treatment that focuses on how the body and mind are interconnected. In this approach, physical symptoms are addressed because they may in fact signal emotional distress. Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.
Is EMDR a somatic therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of somatic therapy, as it incorporates mental and physical principles. EMDR involves remembering a traumatic experience while allowing one’s eyes to track a side-to-side visual stimulus from a therapist. This lateral eye movement is believed to diminish the painful power of the memory so that it can be discussed with a therapist.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Somatic therapy has been researched and studied, and some forms of somatic therapy are found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Because somatic therapy encompasses many techniques, some, such as EMDR and meditation, have been studied more than others.
What is somatic trauma therapy?
Somatic trauma therapy is based on the idea that when people experience trauma, they can become stuck in the “freeze” part of a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. In this state, trauma can manifest itself both mentally and physically—through tension in the muscles, anxiety, and stress. Popular forms of somatic trauma therapy include EMDR, sensorimotor therapy, and somatic experiencing.