Individual & Family CHOICES Program

2016/2017 Serving Children, Families & Adults in PA & Beyond

What we do:

What we practise:

Nosotros are a group of highly trained mental health professionals who specialize in the holistic, trauma informed care of children, adolescents, adults and families.

We besides conduct consultations, provide clinical supervision and present trainings in lodge to assistance professionals outside of our program in working with individuals and families that are touched by trauma.

LOOK FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Below!!

Run into Our Talented and Dedicated Professionals

Evelyn Wald, MS, MDiv, LPC

Evelyn Wald, MS, MDiv, LPC

Evelyn has more than than 20 years of counseling experience in journeying with individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in the areas of grief, loss, and life transitions. She also facilitates a diversity of grief support groups and is a clinical consultant for TIDES- a program for grieving children and their families. Evelyn is formally trained as well in Internal Family Systems and Middle Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). She is also ordained in a ministry of Word and sacrament. Evelyn believes in a holistic arroyo, addressing the emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of our homo experiences. For her the customer and counselor seek to develop a sacred human relationship and travel together every bit companions along life'southward journey.

Evelyn is besides a gifted trainer and consultant on traumatic bereavement issues too equally the process of grieving and loss. She is often sought after to present on these issues past the loss and grieving specialist customs every bit well every bit other agencies and college and university departments. Her wit and presentation style are known to keep participants engaged and often belongings on to their seats while laughing through the tears.

Karen Hansel MSW, LCSW, ACS

Karen Hansel MSW, LCSW, ACS

Karen is the Clinical Managing director at CHOICES and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has xx years of experience in the mental wellness field and has worked with children, adults, and families in multiple levels of care. She obtained her Masters in Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a trauma focused therapist who works collaboratively with her clients to promote strengths and healing. She is trained in Structural Family Therapy, Cerebral Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy , EMDR Trauma Focused CBT, and Internal Family Systems. Karen recently attained certification as an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS/NBCC-CEE). Karen is well known in the Primal PA area as a steadfast and consistent psychotherapist who is empathetic with her clients and passionate almost their birthright for healing and wholeness. Her clarity and perceptual intuitiveness have also made her a colleague who other professionals seek for clinical supervision and consultation. CHOICES is blessed to take Karen on the team.

Michaela Herr MA, LPC, ATR

Michaela Herr MA, LPC, ATR

Michaela is a Board Certified Art Therapist. She believes in the process of art-making and utilizes art materials as tools, guiding clients to cocky-expression, advice, cocky-discovery, and healing. Michaela believes in integrating mindfulness, yoga, music therapy, play therapy techniques, and guided imagery into her work. With experience in childhood and adolescent trauma, she strives to meet individuals where they are and empower them in positive and productive ways. Her unique blend of approaches promotes good for you well-being.

Michaela has announced that she volition be leaving CHOICES to travel in Ireland, Europe and other as yet unnamed countries to get the experience of art therapy and creative expressions for healing exterior of the Usa. The CHOICES staff await forward to assisting Michaela's clients in transferring to our other therapists and also wait forrad to keeping in touch with Michaela as she enters the side by side phase of her life journey!

Lois Pessolano Ehrmann PhD, LPC, NCC

Lois Pessolano Ehrmann PhD, LPC, NCC

Founder & director of our program, Lois has over 30 years of professional counseling experience & many years of practice in Centering Prayer. In her doctoral studies at Penn Country University her subspecialties were human evolution and family studies and psychiatric rehab. Her enquiry focused on the needs of parents and children in families where the children were adopted out of the Us foster intendance arrangement. An affiliate professor at PSU, she continues to research the treatment of wounded individuals & families through a holistic plan of care & holds the following credentials: Registered Adhere Clinician, Certified EMDR Clinician/Canonical Consultant (EMDRIA), Certified Attachment Focused Family unit Therapist, Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), National Certified Advisor (NCC), and Certified IFS Clinician (Center for Cocky Leadership). She has trained through EEG Spectrum in neurofeedback and is too certified in clinical hypnosis (ASCH). Although not a body/energy practitioner, Lois spent vi months studying body & free energy systems of healing to conceptualize how these alternatives could be integrated into cutting edge models of counseling. She treats children, adolescents, & adults in healing wounds of trauma & zipper.

Jessie Westrick Starks, MA, LPC, NCC

Jessie Westrick Starks, MA, LPC, NCC

Jessie has experience working with families, children, adolescents and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She has a Masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Appalachian Country University, where she also studied torso-centered therapies and obtained a certification in Expressive Arts Therapy. In working with clients, Jessie supplements traditional talk therapy with expressive arts through imagery, storytelling, movement, therapeutic writing and visual arts to foster growth and healing.

Jessie has recently completed formal Eye Motility Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) training and is enjoying using this set of strategies for helping individuals who struggle with Trauma. She is in the certification process at this signal. Jessie is known for her gifted ability to connect with her clients resulting in the development of safety within her session room. We at CHOICES appreciate Jessie and her gifts in all means.

Daryle Gracey MS, LPC, NCC

Daryle Gracey MS, LPC, NCC

Daryle is a Licensed Professional person Counselor (LPC) and National Certified Counselor (NCC). She received her Primary of Science degree in Professional Counseling at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Daryle has been trained in Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Cerebral Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing. She also uses Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT).

Daryle specializes in treating individuals with a wide range of behavioral and mental health issues, with a stiff groundwork in trauma related issues. She is experienced in working with both adolescents and adults who accept experienced sexual and domestic violence, struggle with serious and persistent mental illnesses, forensic mental health issues, and those struggling with both substance and behavioral addictions. Daryle is described as empathetic, accepting, compassionate, validating, and straight. She is passionate nigh empowering clients to learn how to cope and work through their traumatic experience.

Her approach includes providing a safe therapeutic environs and utilizing a variety of counseling approaches so clients may begin the healing journey from the past events and negative beliefs that adversely affect daily living and healthy relationships."

Vicki Giulian MSW, LSW

Vicki Giulian MSW, LSW

Vicki is a Licensed Social Worker who began her career in social services in 1999, working with women and children transitioning from abusive environments. After receiving her Available's Degree in Folklore from Pennsylvania State University, Vicki counseled adults and adolescents with substance corruption bug and co-occurring disorders for over five years. While working toward her Master's of Social Work Degree from Temple University, Vicki focused on clinical therapeutic practise, gaining feel in both Clinical Supervision and Trauma-Informed interventions for children and adults.

Vicki's therapeutic work is influenced past psychodynamic approaches, like Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, likewise as by mindfulness and cognitive behavioral techniques.

Vicki'southward education and work experiences accept provided her with many tools that inform her do, but it is the customer who ultimately determines the grade his or her therapy will accept. As a therapist, Vicki seeks to help individuals to develop their ain unique abilities to cope in transitions and to notice personal meaning in whatsoever challenges they experience.

Ellen Black MSW, LCSW

Ellen Blackness MSW, LCSW

Ellen volition exist joining the CHOICES staff as an outpatient therapist gradually over the summer months. Ellen has been working in the fundamental Pennsylvania area for over thirty years and she specializes in working with individuals who are intellectually disabled and who are struggling with trauma. Ellen is formally trained in trauma informed intendance also as Eye Move Desensitization Reprocessing and the Internal Family Systems Model of Psychotherapy. Welcome Aboard Ellen.

Jerah Griggs, M.Ed, Counselor Extern

Jerah Griggs, Grand.Ed, Counselor Extern

Jerah comes to CHOICES with over sixteen years of experience in the homo services field. She obtained her Masters caste in Community Counseling from Georgia Southern University.

Jerah began her work with at-risk youth and went on to help both adolescents and adult survivors of sexual and domestic abuse. Jerah has experience working with those struggling to manage feet along with other chronic mental health bug. She has experience with a wide variety of populations including children, adolescents, adults, veterans and spouses of veterans in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

At CHOICES Jerah is actively learning about trauma informed treatment across the life span and has just been hired as out neurofeedback technician nether the supervision of Dr. Lois Ehrmann.

Jerah is currently working toward obtaining her National Certified Counselor (NCC) certification likewise as becoming a Professional person Advisor (LPC) licensed in the state of Pennsylvania.

Run across out Authoritative Support Staff too!

Jacqui Greenland

Jacqui Greenland

Jacqui is by and large bachelor Monday through Friday in our Reception/Concern Office to respond any questions and help you lot navigate your way effectually the CHOICES program and edifice. She has worked in patient and customer care for many years and anybody who meets Jacqui on their check in reports feeling especially welcomed to CHOICES.

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones

Jenn is available in our front end office from 10:00 am to 6:15 pm Monday through Thursday and tin can be called upon to discuss insurance, billing issues and other CHOICES matters. She has worked in administering patient and client centered professional offices for many years. Jenn besides has a welcoming and helpful spirit.

We're Looking for a few more Keen Therapists to join our CHOICES Team

If you are interested email Dr. Lois Ehrmann at loisehrmann@gmail.com

If you are interested email Dr. Lois Ehrmann at loisehrmann@gmail.com

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to join a squad of professionals who are committed to the provision of holistic and comprehensive trauma informed treatment to individuals of all ages? CHOICES has openings for licensed professional counselors, social workers and spousal relationship and family unit therapists. We offering the following to our full time clinicians:

  • Health Insurance
  • 12 vacation days per yr
  • x personal days per year
  • Flexible autonomous scheduling
  • 8 paid holidays
  • Professional Liability Insurance and License and Certification Fees Reimbursement
  • At least four in business firm professional person trainings per twelvemonth (In the concluding 12 months our staff have gotten trainings and continuing education clock hours toward licensure in Sand Tray Therapy, Grief Matters, Cess of Trauma and Attachment Issues, The Effects of Pornography on Children)
  • Additional training possibilities in EMDR; Internal Family Systems;
  • Ongoing truthful clinical supervision/consultation every other week for 2 hours
  • Individual consultation for specialty certification such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems Therapy

Our squad is committed not only to our clients and their families but to our own professional person community and the wholesome climate at CHOICES as well. We support each other on our professional journeys and treat each other with utmost integrity and honor.

If yous are interested in finding out more nigh the opportunities that be at CHOICES delight call or email our executive director and founder, Dr. Lois Ehrmann at 814-237-0567 Ext. 106 or loisehrmann@gmail.com .

We're Looking to Interact with a Nifty Torso/Energy Worker

Are you Interested?

The Individual and Family CHOICES Programme, a holistic cut border counseling agency, located in State Higher PA has a unique opportunity for a few health practitioners. We have a number of offices available for hire that nosotros would like to occupy with practitioners such equally: Life Coaches, Spiritual Directors, Therapeutic Massage Therapists, Cranial Sacral Therapist, Nutritionists, etc. While not employees of CHOICES these practitioners would share the parking lot, and waiting area while ministering to their own clients also as potentially gaining referrals from the CHOICES staff. If you are certified and or licensed in your wellness practice and are interested in this opportunity please call Dr. Lois Ehrmann at 814-237-0567 Ext. 106 or email her at loisehrmann@gmail.com.