I am a warm and compassionate person, and I strive to make my clients comfortable and heard during each session. I want to be part of their support system and assist with improving emotional health.

I utilize an assertive communication style to promote confidence and self-awareness. I utilize "I" statements to show clients respect and not violate their rights. Additionally, showing clients respect and listening attentively to their needs is how I build a good rapport with them.

For 40 years I have been serving my community as a psychologist in private practice. My expertise is in helping individuals who are suffering with anxiety, depression and negative self image begin to see themselves differently and learn how they can take charge of their lives and experience the joy they were intended to feel. Working with a number of different modalities, my clients learn how to free themselves from negative and limiting self concepts. I take a very spiritual approach to my work. As a trinity, body, mind and spirit, shifting ones perspective and beginning to operate from a higher view often helps one overcome what seemed at one time to be impossible. We are joy seeking beings because joy is our natural state. When we once again come to know our true nature, we will naturally begin to feel more alive, joyful and ultimately more fulfilled.

Eleanor is a dedicated Licensed Professional Counselor who is passionate about helping her clients. She is a National Certified Counselor through the National Board for Certified Counselors, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, a Certified Family Trauma Professional, and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Her approach to therapy is integrative and thoughtful, blending various theoretical frameworks and evidence-based interventions to tailor her services to the unique needs of each client. Eleanor believes in the transformative power of a systemic approach, empowering couples and families to become healing agents for one another. In a warm, non-judgmental, and genuine manner, she works with couples and families to help guide and support them to improve their relationships. Her diverse training includes modalities such as Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Attachment-Based therapies. Eleanor's extensive training in couples therapy includes completing Levels 1, 2, and 3 of the esteemed Gottman Method Couples Therapy. As a Gottman Leader for The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Couples Program, she enthusiastically facilitates workshops that foster deeper connections and promote lasting relationships. Additionally, she holds advanced accreditation in the Bader-Pearson Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, has completed an ICEEFT-endorsed EFT Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, and completed advanced couples therapy training through the Doherty Relationship Institute. She is also a certified PrepareEnrich Facilitator and enjoys exploring relational insights with couples. Eleanor's professional journey has taken her through diverse settings—including agency outpatient, school-based, partial hospitalization, and private practice. She has also shared her passion for learning and teaching as an adjunct instructor for local area colleges. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College and is currently completing her PhD studies in Marriage and Family Therapy at Amridge University. Her research interests include improving couple and family relationships by understanding and improving relationship processes, including attachment and support processes in couples and families, exploring the dynamics of infidelity, and the impacts of generational trauma.

WE CAN HELP HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP. "Why does my partner overreact?" "Why do I get so triggered?" "How come the punishment doesn't fit the crime?" “Why can’t he be more supportive?” “Is anything I do ever enough for her?” While you are feeling hurt, you have an added layer of confusion. You simultaneously love your partner and even hope to stay in this relationship to keep your love, family, and dreams intact. You are torn in a tug-of-war of emotions and desire to feel understood, accepted, and embraced by your partner. HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP AT ITS ROOT! Your dynamic is being driven by vulnerable and deep emotions. Those deep emotions are sensitive ‘raw spots' that are easily provoked and can cause you intolerable emotional discomfort- and leads to a “fight-or-flight” (anxious, angry, avoidant) response. This starts a negative cycle that creates more distance between you. CHANGE IS POSSIBLE! In therapy with us, you will learn strategies to respond differently and avoid slipping into old negative cycles of criticism, questioning, defensiveness, shutting down, and avoidance. We’ve helped HUNDREDS of people experience EMOTIONAL INTIMACY by learning how to effectively share and receive each other’s deeper emotions.

What brings you to therapy is pain in your life. Did you know that have strengths, already present within yourself - to cope with what life throws you? I can help you discover those strengths and learn to use them - so that you can start feeling in control of your life again.

As a mindfulness-based relationship specialist, I help you build a solid foundation for you to create an exceptional relationship. Good relationships require both personal and relational growth. For this reason, I can work with you individually or partnered. I embrace a compassionate approach to help you navigate tough conversations, strengthen self-expression, and practice healthy accountability. You will learn ways to take responsibility for the health of your relationship(s), decrease personal stress, increase empathy and compassion, strengthen connection, and improve your sex life. I also enjoy working with women individually who want to better understand their evolving sexual selves, who want to learn to quiet their thoughts and trust their intuitive wisdom and live in alignment with their minds, bodies and spirit. My integrative approach allows me to play an active role in helping you heal your body, mind, and heart by offering guidance, direct feedback, and home practice exercises. My therapeutic style incorporates an eclectic blend of Eastern and Western methodologies, drawing on cutting-edge research in the field of mindfulness, relationships, and sexual health. Together, we examine how your individual thinking, relationship dynamics, family, social circumstances, and physical health all impact your relationship as a whole. My academic and educational background combines with my personal experiences practicing mindfulness, meditation, and spiritual attunement. I offer morning, daytime, and some evening appointments, both in-person and through video conferencing (telehealth). To make an appointment with me at Center for Intimate Relationships, click the links to call or email me, or contact me through my website.

Philadelphia Institute for Individual Relational & Sex Therapy is a practice of highly trained and specialized therapists dedicated to helping people gain greater insight and create greater joy in their lives. We provide services for individuals, families and all types of relationships. Our unique group practice brings together the skills of a variety of specialty trained therapists who function independently but are benefited by the strength of a group skill set. The psychotherapists at PhIIRST are a diverse group of both male and female psychotherapists specializing in individual, relational and sex therapy. We know that life's challenges can often be complex and profoundly emotional. The therapists at PhIIRST offer a wide range of counseling and therapy services as well as educational workshop and groups.

Do you continue to struggle with anxiety, mood, or self-defeating behaviors that get in the way of feeling good about yourself and sabotaging your potential? You are not alone. Many people silently suffer from addictive eating and alcohol overconsumption, anger, social anxiety, difficulties with focus, decision-making, and relationship problems. There is hope! You can break these frustrating and painful cycles of repetition, even if you have tried to change for many years. Quality skills-based counseling and coaching can help. I'm a collaborative, skills-based counselor. I work with adult clients to increase their awareness, build the skills and resources they need to be more resilient and stress-hardy, and better manage themselves, the issues at hand, their relationships, and problems more effectively. Ultimately, my goal is to help you become more empowered with a sense of mastery and personal control - whether at home or on-the-job-changing behaviors and self-limiting beliefs that negatively impact your mental health and well-being and get in the way of reaching your potential. So, whether you're trying to recover from a health, mental health, personal or professional setback or trying to change a problematic life-long behavior once and for all, improvement is possible with your willingness and commitment. We'll work together in my convenient and confidential virtual office to get you moving in a positive direction - Living your best life. Resilience, the ultimate goal is to better trust yourself and your skills when responding to discomfort, stress and life demands - To trust ourselves and feel competent is incredibly empowering! We are designed, by nature, to learn, grow and make our best effort to reach our individual potential – You deserve that, too."