Hello and welcome. If you are looking for help dealing with overwhelming emotions, relationship difficulties, or challenging life transitions, I'm glad you have found my website. I am a warm, active and direct therapist who specializes in working with individuals, couples and families seeking meaningful and lasting change in their lives.
Therapy is an opportunity to make sense and heal from past experiences and learn new ways of being in the world- both with yourself and in relationships.
My goal is to support, encourage and also challenge my clients to create a life of greater ease, fulfillment and meaning. Please take some time to look over this site to get a sense of who I am and how I work. If you think I might be someone you would feel comfortable working with, I would love to hear from you. My hope for you is to heal, grow and thrive.
Warmly,
The EWT Team
CATHIE GORDON, LMFT, LPCC
Therapist and Founder of Empathy Works Therapy
Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant, Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFT)
I help couples and individuals create greater safety within their relationships and deepen their emotional bonds with loved ones. I especially love working with women with mid-life concerns and supporting parents navigating the challenges of raising children.
I believe in the healing power of relationship. We are hurt in relationship and we heal in relationship.
Clients tell me I am a warm and compassionate therapist. I believe we are are stronger than we know.
BRIANA SOLADAY, LMFT, C-IAYT
Therapist
I help individuals (adults and elders) and couples.
I especially enjoy working with issues like finding meaningful vocation and expression of potential.
I love sharing tools to soothe anxiety, lighten depression and re-pattern maladaptive habits (like ruminating in anger or worry).
I have a deep well of experience and a calling for working with trauma, grief, and PTSD.
I also enjoy supporting couples in developing understanding and improved connection in wounded relationships.
Lucas Harris, AMFT
Therapist
I help individuals, couples, and teens. I'm passionate about creating a collaborative and supportive space where clients can explore their concerns, heal past wounds, and repair relationships.
I utilize Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR informed therapy in my work with individuals, leading to greater self-compassion, inner healing, improved relationships and support around trauma.
For couples, I draw upon IFS and the Developmental Model by the Couple's Institute.
Above all, I'm passionate about helping you achieve your goals and build a life that feels meaningful. Together, we can create a path towards lasting change.
JENNY PEREZ, LCSW
Therapist
I help individuals and couples realize a fuller potential.
Through a safe therapeutic relationship I help clients share their thoughts and feelings in ways that serve and enhance their well-being.
I believe that human beings are programmed to be socially interconnected; We naturally seek togetherness, crave closeness and intimacy. Sometimes the world around us and/or the world within us can block us from getting our needs met.
This is the goal of therapy; To help us regain our connections to self, others and the world around us.
Maddy Pettit, LMFT
Therapist
I help individuals (teens and adults), couples, and families with teens.
I help clients make meaning out of their emotions and move towards a more authentic, values-based life. I enjoy helping clients navigate the thinking patterns and behaviors that accompany trauma, anxiety, depression and eating disorders. I strive to cultivate a space where clients can foster the inner resilience they already possess.
I also may include EMDR therapy in my offerings.
I enjoy helping couples improve their communication patterns and deepen their emotional connections.
Clients tell me I’m down to earth and easy to connect with.
Natalie Sekowski, C-IAYT
Intake Coordinator
It is my pleasure to be a part of the team at Empathy Works Therapy.
I help communicate with potential new clients, field inquiries and questions, help match clients to one of our therapists and coordinate our waitlists.
As the intake coordinator, it is my honor to hold space for folks with warmth and compassion. I know it can sometimes be especially hard to reach out to ask for support. I am happy to help.
Outside of my role for Empathy Works Therapy, I am a Certified Yoga Therapist. My focus includes anxiety, depression, grief, chronic pain, and working with seniors and caregivers. I also volunteer with hospice patients. I work with individuals, teach small group classes and enjoy supporting teams of professionals.