Gestalt therapists in Paramus, NJ
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Gestalt
Gregory De Fronzo
Counselor/Therapist, MA, LAC
Life can feel overwhelming, and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start or even how to put what you’re experiencing into words. I want therapy to be a space where you can be yourself, speak honestly, and feel heard without judgment. I work with people from many different backgrounds and recognize that your experiences, relationships, culture, identity, and the environments you move through can all shape what you bring into therapy. I don’t assume that my experience is the same as yours. I want to understand your perspective and what matters to you so that our work reflects your life, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
5 Years Experience
In-Person Near Paramus, NJ
Online in Paramus, NJ
Gestalt
Peter Linden
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, Certified Gestalt Therapist
As an AuDHD man with learning disabilities, I had an experience growing up that is all too familiar within the neurodivergent community. Often feeling misunderstood and out of place, I was faced with indifference, ignorance, neglect, gaslighting, shame, and the assumption that I could navigate a world that was not built for me without the support I so badly needed. Lonely, adrift, and struggling to find a sense of belonging, I was cast aside and left to fend for myself.
After a series of negative experiences with mental health resources and support, I found my way to a couples therapist in 2014. There, I discovered Gestalt therapy while experiencing the gifts of love, kindness, safety, acceptance, curiosity, and flow. Through embodied awareness and responding, rather than reacting, I came to trust my innate power, humanity, body, and the certainty of the earth.
In 2019, I began studying Gestalt therapy following the unexpected end of my marriage. Amidst despair, sorrow, sadness, loneliness, and grief, I discovered a vehicle that challenged me in all domains of existence. Here, I grieved, faced impermanence, and gradually co-created the scaffolding from which I could emerge in a more embodied way as an AuDHD man, human being, and partner.
As I found life again, I became increasingly aware of the profound suffering experienced by neurodivergent people. Endless demands that we grind away in search of acceptance, love, and certainty left us adrift, performing, deadened, and increasingly separate in an ableist world.
Through Gestalt therapy, I continued to experience connectedness, belonging, compassion, the wonder of curiosity, and love itself. I finally found spontaneity, playfulness, and excitement in relation to myself, other people, and even existence itself.
With this mission, I founded Welcome Home Healing in 2023. Since then, I have had the honor of joining people as they awaken, live, and emerge into their humanity within the unfolding now.
3 Years Experience
In-Person Near Paramus, NJ
Online in Paramus, NJ
Gestalt
Ryan Ramsey
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Being authentic matters to me. I show up as a real person in the therapy room, and I want you to feel like you can do the same. My goal is to create a space where you can be yourself, open up, and unpack everything you’ve been carrying: the stress, the thoughts you keep to yourself, the experiences you’ve been through, and all the stuff life has handed you. When people feel safe enough to be honest and real, that’s when therapy really helps.
I’m informal, down-to-earth, and easy to talk to. I believe that the relationship between us is far more important than any technique or theory. When you feel comfortable, understood, and really seen, you’re more likely to take risks, say what’s true, and make real changes.
That said, I do bring strong clinical training when it’s useful. I have advanced training in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute in New York. REBT is one tool in my toolbox and something we can use to help you understand and challenge your thoughts, shift unhelpful patterns, and create new ways of responding to stress, relationships, and life in general. But therapy with me isn’t rigid or overly structured. It’s a conversation. It’s two humans sitting down, figuring things out together.
If you’re motivated to change, to feel better, to understand yourself more deeply, or to get clearer about where you want your life to go, I can help you with all of that.
7 Years Experience
Online in Paramus, NJ
Gestalt
James C. Carpenter, PhD, ABPP
Psychologist, PhD (Clinical Psychology, Ohio State U), Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (ABPP), PSYPACT
My clinical experience is wide and deep. I estimate I have conducted about 90,000 hours of psychotherapy sessions, including many hours training and supervising other therapists. This experience covers many modes: individual therapy, as well as family, couple and group therapy. My basic orientation is existential and psychodynamic, but I have added much training and experience in other approaches on top of that over the years. I am Board Certified in Clinical Psychology, ABPP, have served 2 terms as a board director and secretary for the American Academy of Psychotherapy, and previously trained young clinical psychologists and psychiatric residents at the University of North Carolina. We keep learning more about how to be effective therapists, and I have aggressively added to my clinical wisdom. I stand ready to work to understand you deeply, and help you profoundly, whatever your current dilemmas.
41 Years Experience
Online in Paramus, NJ
Gestalt
Felicity Fong
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC
Complex trauma can be a stubborn and unwanted life companion. Living through repeated exposure to traumatic and harmful experiences can leave you feeling unable to trust yourself or others, seeing yourself differently, and feeling chronically unsafe. And alongside those wounds, complicated grief can also be woven into the mix of post-traumatic pain.
Complicated grief is so much more than “just” a loss - it’s anger, sadness, guilt, and confusion surrounding losses that can’t always be easily defined. As a licensed professional counselor with a special interest in trauma treatment, I understand the profound impact these experiences can have on an individual’s emotional well being.
6 Years Experience
Online in Paramus, NJ
Gestalt Therapy therapists in Paramus, NJ Statistics
Gestalt Therapy therapists in Paramus, NJ average 15 years of experience and charge around $238 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (82%), Self Esteem (75%), and Depression (71%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$238
Accept insurance
32%
Offer sliding scale
36%
Gender ID
| 52% |
Female |
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| 42% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 57% |
In Person and Online |
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| 43% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 82% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 75% | Self Esteem |
| 71% | Depression |
| 64% | Stress |
| 64% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 54% | Loss or Grief |
| 50% | Social Anxiety |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 82% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 50% | Teen |
| 18% | Children |
Client Focus
| 57% | Men |
| 46% | Women |
| 43% | LGBTQ+ |
| 32% | Christian |
| 29% | Hispanic / Latino |