Philadelphia Area Couples Counseling Alliance
Arlene Foreman, M.S.
has an extraordinary ability to quickly get to the heart of an issue. She attributes her success to devoting positive energy to all areas of her life. "I am continually challenging myself to grow. I believe successful therapists must have a profound understanding of themselves. This knowledge enables them to inspire others to become more than they ever imagined they could be."
From her busy Ardmore office, Arlene Foreman has developed her own unique form of psychotherapy with communication skills as her primary focus. She is on the cutting edge -- helping people to release communication blocks so that their real selves can emerge.
Arlene's clients come from a diverse range of cultures. "I strive to respect people's unique values and culture and consider these when I am helping clients to resolve issues."
"People often come to their first couples session fearful of being misunderstood and blamed. Instead, they leave with clarity, safety, and exciting new skills." Drawing on twenty-eight years of experience, Arlene Foreman is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She helps couples to not only resolve their conflicts, but to create super marriages.
Professional memberships include: The American Mental Health Counselors Association, The Center for Frontier Sciences, The Anxiety Disorders Association of America and The Group Counseling Association.
"As usual, Arlene Foreman is one step ahead of everyone else. Her thinking is brilliant, intriguing, and thought-provoking."
Constance Linn, M.D.
Arlene Foreman, M.S.
Pennsylvania Licensed
Professional Counselor # PC000457
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Jacqueline Summers, M.A.
Licensed Psychologist
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Jacqueline Summers, M.A.
has a profound understanding of the world of couples in distress. With warmth, wisdom, and professional expertise, she helps couples to make positive changes to achieve a mature, nourishing, and enduring love. For more than twenty-eight years, she has been committed to transforming conflict into a map for growth. She helps couples to recognize and alter dysfunctional patterns, emphasizes the importance of emotional connection, teaches remarkably empowering communication techniques, and treats the anxiety and depression that often arises from relationship issues.
Jacqueline Summers is a licensed psychologist and a Certified Imago Couples Therapist. Her prize-winning poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies in the United States and Canada, including The Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest.
Jacqueline Summers sees clients in her Ardmore PA office. Her office is convenient to Narberth, Lower Merion, Bryn Mawr, Broomall, Upper Darby, Wynnewood, Haverford, Havertown, Drexel Hill, Springfield, Penn Valley, Rosemont, Bala Cynwood, Manyunk and Lawrence Park.
Karni Kissil, M.A., M.Ed, LMFT
Karni Kissil, M.A., M.Ed, LMFT
is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has counseled couples, families, and individuals in the US and Israel for 15 years. She helps couples with relationship issues such as communication and intimacy problems, infidelity and parenting. She also addresses issues of grief and loss, trauma, and immigration.
Karni is best known for her straightforward and honest approach, her clear analysis of underlying core issues and her ability to remain impartial and connect with both partners. "My therapy is guided by a strong belief in my clients' inherent strengths. I enable people to consider new possibilities while drawing on their inner resources to bring about desired changes. Couples enhance their intimacy and communication and feel greater satisfaction in the relationship."
Karni Kissil sees clients in her Ardmore office or in her Bala Cynwood office. Her offices are convenient to Wynnewood, Bala Cynwyd, Broomall, Upper Darby, Springfield, Drexel Hill, Clifton Heights, Haverford, Havertown, Bryn Mawr and Rosemont.
Learn more about Karni and her practice on her website.
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Lucinda Mitchell, Ph.D.
Lucinda Mitchell, Ph.D.
is most noted for her gifted ability to empathically connect with each partner in a distressed couple. This helps to bridge and soften the gap and enables them to learn new ways to communicate their needs and conflicts. Couples find that developing new skills and unlearning old destructive habits are fundamental to the recovery of a good marriage.
Just learning how to talk and listen to one another in new ways is a key. Taking time to heal a marriage and repairing intimacy can be painful, but Dr. Mitchell's sensitive and expert skill helps many couples achieve rewarding and permanent results.
Dr. Mitchell is a licensed professional counselor and a nationally certified analyst. Her research and publications include extensive work on infidelity and obsessive love.
Dr. Mitchell sees clients in her Philadelphia Center City office near Rittenhouse Square.
Jeannette Samanen, Ph.D.
Jeannette Samanen, Ph.D.
loves helping couples work through their power struggles to achieve a loving relationship based on open communication and mutual respect.
For over 30 years she has been helping people learn what they can do differently to get more of what they need, want and deserve. The only person you can control is yourself. Learning to change your own behavior can result in benefit for you, your partner and your relationship.
An important part of this process is helping partners to improve their communication. Learning to be a better listener is almost always the key to better communication and enhanced relationship satisfaction. Through improved communication an atmosphere of safety and trust is established in which old wounds can be healed and true intimacy created.
Jeannette has specialized in relationship counseling and sex therapy since her graduate training 30 years ago. Eighteen years ago she was certified in Imago Therapy, the highly effective approach to relationship therapy developed by Harville Hendrix, the author of Getting the Love You Want.
Dr. Samanen's office is located in Phoenixville PA near Valley Forge and is convenient to King of Prussia, Norristown, Norriton, Royersford and Collegeville PA.
Sandi Cohen, Ph.D.
Sandi Cohen, Ph.D.
brings her wisdom, compassion and 28 years of experience in marriage and family counseling to help individuals and couples in all relationships, including traditional, interfaith, interracial, gay, lesbian and alternate lifestyles. She respects the individuality of each person and teaches highly effective communication skills and creative problem solving as she helps couples enrich and enliven their lives.
Dr. Cohen received her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, is a certified mediator, and has published articles on cross-cultural families and cultural differences in marital role expectations. She has appeared on many radio shows and presented at numerous national and international conferences, focusing on the impact of issues of infertility and adoption.
Dr. Cohen sees clients from her Mount Airy office in Philadelphia PA. Her office is convenient to Chestnut Hill, Germantown, Andorra and Roxborough.
Judith Lowenthal
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Judith Lowenthal Psychologist, Ph.D.
is proactive, practical, and rarely glib. She works to build on the strengths in relationships. She has 35 years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. Her patients describe her as compassionate, warm, intuitive, non-judgmental and perceptive. She loves her work and feels fortunate to share the struggles and the triumphs of my patients. She has helped people make positive changes and fresh starts. She believes that finding love and success are choices.
"I am challenged by diverse lifestyles and working with individuals from different cultures, ages, ethnic groups, and sexual orientations," opines Dr. Lowenthal.
I have raised three children, and I believe that often parents are only as happy as their saddest child. I work well with adolescents and young adults. I have the maturity and life experience to understand the challenges of chronic illness, disability, aging, grief and care giving.
I am a positive, supportive, and creative therapist who actively participates in the process of change. I try hard to support marriages, relationships, and families. I would be happy to speak with you if you need more information. Please call with any questions.
Dr. Lowenthal works from her office in Elkins Park PA. Her office is convenient to Northeast Philadelphia, Jenkintown, Abington and Willow Grove PA.
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H.L. Schwab
Marriage & Family
Therapist, LMFT
Larry Schwab, Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT LMFT
is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist based in Media, PA and Wilmington, DE. He has treated individuals, couples and families for 21 years, and has supervised other therapists.
"I believe that it is the relationships we have with each other that determine our peace of mind and quality of life. It is through relating more clearly with each other that we can improve our lives. Couples often enter therapy feeling disappointed and disillusioned. It is important for them to leave the first session with a sense of hope and anticipation of better ways of communicating and being intimate with each other"
Larry Schwab sees clients at his office in Media PA and Wilmington DE. He serves clients from the surrounding areas of Newtown Square, Westtown, Ridley Park, and Chadds Ford PA as well as the state of Delaware and northern Maryland.
Larry Schwab is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and has a Masters degree in Family Therapy from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.
Natasha S. Chang, M.S.
Natasha S. Chang, M.S.
is a systems oriented practitioner specializing in individuals, couples, and family therapy. She is particularly skilled at incorporating two evidenced based approaches to couples therapy, that of John Gottman at the Gottman Institute in Seattle, WA and of Susan Johnson in Ottawa, Canada. Natasha's primary emphasis is on using Dr. Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples.
It is a very exciting time to be in this field with a map to explore what is common to all humans on the planet: human emotion and attachment (or its loss). Natasha works with individuals, couples and families to improve communication resolve conflict and achieve a greater satisfaction and joy in their relationships. Natasha helps couples establish or restore intimacy in their relationship, even after such traumatic events such as an affair. She is known for her work with nontraditional families, families/couples with a member recovering from addiction and co-parenting after divorce. Multiculturally sensitive therapy and larger context issues are a focus in her practice. Natasha works out of offices in Ardmore, PA as well as Center City, Philadelphia.
She provides therapy for couples in Center City and Ardmore PA.
Janet Cegelka, Ph.D.
has over twenty years experience mentoring couples and transforming their relationships to a state of well being which enhances the energy and creativity of each partner. She teaches couples the art of true independence. This is the ability to relate closely to one another while still maintaining a sense of self. Couples learn how to transform into loving and nurturing individuals. Through skill techniques, Dr. Cegelka helps partners grow separately as individuals, while still being intimate together. According to Dr. Cegelka, key elements that all human beings strive for are unity and independence
Dr. Cegelka is a licensed professional counselor, certified grief counselor, board certified forensic addiction counselor and certified hypnotherapist. Dr. Cegeka sees clients in her Yardley office, which is convenient to Levittown, Bensalem, Makefield, Washington Crossing, Newtown, Langhorne and Morrisville.
Pam Kelberg, MSSW, LSW
Pam Kelberg, MSSW, LSW,
is a licensed social worker and psychotherapist specializing in couples therapy. Pam helps couples better communicate and build closeness and intimacy in their relationship. As a clinician for 18 years, she believes each person has the ability to grow and learn and that a healthy partnership can develop as each person learns more about themselves in the relationship.
Couples often enter therapy saying they speak to one another yet do not feel heard. "We will work together to learn how to best listen and communicate your needs clearly so that you and your partner can really understand what you are longing for in your relationship."
Pam offers a caring and supportive atmosphere where each person has the ability to grow. She is keenly in tune with her clients and understands that seeking counseling, although not always an easy decision, is a wonderful opportunity to restore intimacy in your relationship with your partner/spouse.
In addition to working with couples, Pam works with individuals who are feeling anxious, with families coping with life transitions and with caregivers who are taking care of an ill family member.
Pam has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College and is a graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work. She received training at Council for Relationships and has trained in many modalities including systemic couples therapies, Imago Therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and child play therapy.
Pam sees clients in her Bala Cynwyd office just off of City Avenue. Her office is convenient to Lower Merion, Wynnewood, Overbrook, Villanova, St. David's, Broomall, East Falls, Gladwyne, West Conshohocken, Penn Valley, Merion Station and Narberth.
