Meet Our Pennsylvania Therapists
Our Pennsylvania-based therapists are dedicated to helping couples, families, and individuals create meaningful change and emotional clarity. Rooted in relational and trauma-informed care, each clinician offers a thoughtful, attuned presence as you explore the dynamics that matter most to you.
From premarital support to conflict repair, family system work, or individual therapy, our Pennsylvania team is here to walk with you—whether you’re in the midst of crisis or simply ready for growth.
Our Pennsylvania clinicians offer secure telehealth sessions across the state.
Brandy, LMFT she/her
Brandy (she/her), LMFT earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Mass Communication from the University of Delaware, and her Master of Family Therapy from Drexel University. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) Approved Supervisor and Clinical Fellow.
Brandy has devoted her career to advocating that relationships are the critical environment for growth, change and healing. She spent over a decade working with families with profound intergenerational complex trauma and significant attachment challenges. From that experience, her clinical specialties have grown to include the influence of early life experiences, quality of relationships and intergenerational transmission of trauma on current functioning. Through research, training and clinical practice, she has seen how unresolved trauma and poor attachment relationships leave people to use unhealthy mechanisms to survive their environments. These patterns of behavior and relating in time no longer serve healthy development and necessitate innovative trauma treatment and supportive and consistent relational support. She is a staunch believer that healing is done in safe relationships with exploration and treatment of and within the multitude of systems each individual and family belong.
She holds advanced certifications in The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (Level One: Individual and Level Two: Train-the-Trainer), Trauma Art Narrative Therapy, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in addition to multiple modalities of systemic family therapy.
Professionally she has presented on such topics as: complex trauma, attachment challenges, innovative practices in residential care, and families formed by adoption at the Building Bridges Initiative Summer Training Event, the Inaugural Greater Philadelphia Trauma Training Conference, the Northeastern Adoption and Child Welfare Summit, and the International Sanctuary Network Conference.
Brandy teaches Addictions and the Family and Contextual Family Therapy in La Salle’s Counseling and Family Therapy Master’s Program.
Brandy’s clinical approach is rooted in trauma-informed, attachment-based, and neurodevelopmental frameworks. She is certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) – Level 1, and holds a Level 2 Train-the-Trainer Certification under Dr. Bruce Perry.
As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Brandy provides supervision and mentorship to emerging therapists. Her training also includes Emergency Safety Intervention and Suicide Prevention, supporting her commitment to ethical and responsive clinical care.
Brandy’s trauma-focused expertise spans Trauma Art Narrative Therapy (TANT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Trauma-Informed Care, and the Sanctuary Model.
Her attachment and family systems training includes Reactive Attachment Disorder Intervention (with a focus on foreign adoption), Filial Play Therapy, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and The Attachment of the Therapist in Psychotherapy.
Brandy also integrates Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) strategies to promote empathy, regulation, and problem resolution across all ages and systems of care.
Joanna MA, LMFT
Joanna brings a compassionate, grounded, and highly attuned presence to her work with couples, families, and individuals. She is deeply committed to helping clients move through complex trauma, strengthen their most important relationships, and find healing in the places that feel stuck.
Joanna specializes in working with:
- Couples navigating conflict, disconnection, or infidelity
- Teens experiencing high anxiety or engaging in risky behaviors
- Postpartum women adjusting to motherhood and identity shifts
- Adults with unresolved childhood trauma
- Children coping with parental separation or divorce
She has extensive experience supporting individuals and families through:
- Complex trauma and attachment-related challenges
- Adoption and foster care transitions
- Premarital counseling and affair recovery
- Co-parenting dynamics, separation, and divorce
- Multi-generational and extended family conflict
- Anxiety and depression in both adults and children
Education & Clinical Background
Joanna earned her bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Bloomsburg University in 2010, followed by her MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from LaSalle University in 2013.
Over the past decade, Joanna has worked in a range of clinical settings—including inpatient residential programs, outpatient mental health clinics, and private practice, supporting children, adults, couples, and families navigating trauma, loss, attachment injuries, and significant life transitions.
Joanna has focused primarily on couples therapy for the last four years, using Level 1 and 2 Gottman Method training to guide her work. She integrates evidence-based interventions that help couples improve communication, repair trust, and rebuild emotional connection.
“I believe change happens in the context of safety and relationship. Whether you’re a couple in crisis, a teen feeling overwhelmed, or a parent trying to make sense of it all—therapy can be a place to feel seen, heard, and supported in moving forward.”
Joanna brings extensive clinical training in trauma-informed and evidence-based therapeutic models. She is individually certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) – Level 1, developed by Dr. Bruce Perry, and has advanced training in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Trauma Art Narrative Therapy (TANT).
Her work integrates attachment-based and systemic approaches, enhanced by Level 1 & Level 2 Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Joanna is also trained in Emergency Safety Intervention, Suicide Prevention, and Collaborative Problem-Solving (CPS).
Additionally, she holds certification in QPR Suicide Prevention and has completed the AAMFT Fundamentals of Supervision Course, qualifying her as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Joanna also draws upon principles from the Sanctuary Model, fostering safety, connection, and empowerment in her therapeutic work.