“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
Gestalt Training Program Begins
January 6-8th, 2012
Give Us Six Months, and We’ll Give You Change! Develop enhanced competencies in self-awareness and confidence, personal presence and the ability to impact others, and increase your capacity to act with clarity and purpose. One, two and three year programs available. CEUs available. more
Intimate Connections
January 27-29, 2012
Would you like to create positive change in your relationships with family, friends, lovers, and partners? Join us in this workshop and increase your Partnerability. CEUs Available. more
Main Line Today Selects Dr. Dori Middleman as Top Doc
The magazine, Main Line Today, has just announced Dr. Dori Middleman, our staff psychiatrist, workshop leader and gestalt trainer, has been voted one of the Philadelphia Main Line area’s Top Doctors of 2011, as voted by thousands of her peers in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. more
A Special Note From Mariah:
I Hear You And I Care
The numbers are staggering. On average, sexual abusers harm 100 children before they are caught and children must tell seven adults before someone takes action. Lost in the background of the serial sexual abuse that our society seems to tolerate are these victims. Given the numbers, it takes a great deal of courage for a young sexual abuse victim to report his or her abuse to anyone, even those closest to them, much less go public. So, let us not forget the Penn State nine kids who have been willing to shed light on this travesty. What do they need? more
