“In terms of my work, people often ask me how I do it, listening to people’s problems all day long. I tell them that I don’t hear problems. I hear people wanting to change, wanting to be better human beings, wanting to create happier families. I have been privileged to work with people from every continent and from all walks of life. Over and over again I hear people wanting to love and be loved more effectively. I hear people wanting to remove the barriers in their life and provide more for their loved ones on every level. I hear people looking for ways to contribute and improve their contact skills in the world.
This is a privileged position that I have, sharing so many heartwarming moments of laughter and tears with people working toward healing.”
Mariah Fenton Gladis – Founder and Clinical Director
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training. The Center, founded in 1973, by Mariah Fenton Gladis, MSS, QCSW, is the first center in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania to offer Gestalt psychotherapy and training. With the addition of Dr. Dori Middleman, and Dr. Mark Putnam, the Center has built a reputation for its unusually creative and supportive approach, which emphasizes appreciation and enhancement of each individual client and student. Our mission is the same as it was from the beginning, to offer a safe and supportive environment for growth and change.
Here at the Center, we emphasize the development of keen self-awareness and healthy contact with others, with your environment, and most importantly, with yourself. These interactions on all levels—emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual—are fundamental to your life as a healthy functioning person. Our unique approach offers you the opportunity to rediscover and integrate lost aspects of yourself and clearly express the truth of who you really are. It is a challenging and deeply rewarding journey into wholeness.
The Pennsylvania Gestalt Center is also a comprehensive community resource that provides caring, professional psychotherapy, education and counseling to individuals, couples, families and groups. While addressing a diversity of personal and emotional concerns, our therapists are dedicated and experienced mental health professionals who work with people of every age and every stage of life.
We invite you to look over our site and call or e-mail us here at the office and let us know what you need and how we can help you.
Upcoming Events
Healing The MotherWound™
Aug. 13 -14
Have the traditions of mothering in your family sufficiently prepared you for creating a wholesome life? Like that familiar blues song lyric, do you sometimes feel like a motherless child? Join Mariah in this unique workshop for both men and women to explore the influence of your maternal heritage — mother, grandmother, great grandmother, as you honor the gifts and heal the wounds passed down by your ancestors. more
Gestalt Center Open Evening
September 14, 2010
CEUs Available. At a recent workshop, we recorded some of the ways people said they use to avoid contact in the world. They include: Negative self-talk. Taking care of others. Getting busy. Analyzing. Disconnecting. Fearing risk. Judging. Getting angry. Self-censoring. Using humor. Isolating. Intellectualizing. Becoming peacemaker. Prioritizing others. Withdrawing. ARE YOU IN THERE SOMEWHERE? more
Creating Exact Moments of Healing Workshop
September 24-26, 2010
This workshop is specifically designed for people with a passionate commitment toward creating healthy relationships within healthy lives. It offers the opportunity to benefit from personal healing work on emotional injuries rooted in your past, recurring themes or patterns of dysfunction, or personal longings in the here and now. This weekend will change your life forever! more
Tales of a Wounded Healer (Spanish Translation) hits Sanborns Top 50 List
Historias de la Sanadora Herida, the Spanish translation of Mariah Fenton Gladis' book, Tales of a Wounded Healer, has hit the top 50 on the best selling list of Sanborns, the most important bookseller in Mexico. Recently translated and published in Mexico by El Camino Rojo Ediciones, Historias de la Sanadora Herida is also available in Salvador and Panamá.
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