Find a Therapist in Hellertown, Pennsylvania.

Clients will get a better understanding of how their current behaviors/relationships are influenced by their past family, school, work, and history. I provide a safe environment for clients to examine if and how they are going to change to better their lives and increase their level of happiness. I utilize a variety of treatment methods and give challenging "assignments" to help clients realize their full potential and practice skills taught in sessions. The trusting relationship I build with a client in therapy is my best therapeutic tool as clients can then safely explore topic "usually" uncomfortable in the outside world.

Dr. Pearce offers skilled and compassionate psychotherapy to treat anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse recovery, and more. She also specializes in perinatal mental health (pregnancy and postpartum) including processing a difficult birth. She promotes holistic wellness by helping you understand your mind-body connection, especially when it comes to the nervous system and mood/anxiety response patterns. Dr. Pearce helps you create change in your thoughts, feelings, and lifestyle so that you can get back to living the life you love.

When I work with clients individually, I provide a safe place for them to talk about their problems and move toward finding solutions that will make further treatment unnecessary. .It really shouldn’t be necessary for therapy to go on for years. I am very interactive with people, am a good listener and a firm believer that humor provides needed objectivity to promote treatment. Even though we are talking about personal problems, I examine the family and social environments to provide a context for the client.

I create a safe, warm, caring atmosphere so that you can share your painful, feelings of hurt, anger, depression, anxiety, sadness, helplessness and hopelessness. You may also be experiencing guilt, fear, shame or grief and serious relationship (marital, family, parent-child, partner, career) problems. I can help you shift from this state of emotional and mental darkness to the experience of emotional and mental light. I can help you let go of “shoulding” on yourself, unrealistic expectations, perfectionism, self attack thoughts, loss and the sense you are ineffective, unworthy, incompetent or deficient in some way. In the process you will learn to be more forgiving and compassionate to

“The Golden Rule” can be a helpful guide to psychotherapy: treating others as you would like to be treated, with gentleness, pacing, and respect. If a counseling session is likened to conversing with a knowledgeable advisor on the doorstep of your home, psychotherapy can be like inviting that advisor into the “parlor” or “living room” of your inner world based on trust, at-ease-ness, and confidence in your advisor’s insight. My approach to psychotherapy is interactive and strengths-based, starting with cognitive (thought-based) or behavioral coping skills, and moving into awareness of family of origin themes and the impact of past trauma when needed to activate more enduring personal growth in the client.

Eleanor utilizes an integrative therapeutic approach drawing on multiple theoretical approaches and evidence-based interventions to meet the individual needs of each client. Her training in therapeutic approaches utilized in sessions include Family Systems Therapy approaches, Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Attachment-Based therapies. Eleanor has earned accreditation in the Bader-Pearson Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, has completed an ICEEFT-endorsed Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, completed Levels 1, 2 and 3 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and utilizes the models in her work. Schedule a consult 610-944-4327.

Using evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness-based CBT; you won't just learn to cope with difficult symptoms, you will be able to grow through them and create the life you have been wanting. I never expect client's to come to me simply to cope. There is always a way to get better. Psychotherapy sessions are safe, caring, and supportive.

Our approach to providing psychotherapy is client-centered and strengths- based. We believe in making the client feel safe, and in providing a trusting caring counseling relationship. We believe in providing respect, empathy and positive regard for all of my clients, regardless of age, gender or issue. Our counseling backgrounds include working with young children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.

James Hillman once said, "We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world is getting worse." While there are many occasions where the validation and listening endemic to psychotherapy makes sense, there are times where we over assume that "feeling better" and "changing behavior" are the same. Grey Matters International, Inc. goes after the forgotten brain laws to behavior change that therapists miss when processing hours and hours of dialogues with people. Utilizing a cutting edge technology to facilitate the emotional process of change, we can make the therapy process way more effective, faster, and with less money spent. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.