CENTER CITY PHILADELPHIA, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Gretchen Echegoyen, MSW, LCSW
“Emotional healing starts with being honest about what hurts.”
Gretchen Echegoyen is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker at CPA Counseling’s Center City Philadelphia office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She works with adults and couples on anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship difficulty, grief, and life transitions — and honors each client’s faith or spirituality where it matters to them.
WHO GRETCHEN WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Gretchen works with adults, young adults, seniors, couples, and families. Women, men, LGBTQ+ clients, and college students. In person in Center City or by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
why work with Gretchen
Seen, heard, and emotionally safe
Her stated priority is creating a safe, supportive, nonjudgmental space in every session — where you feel seen, heard, and actively involved in your own healing rather than processed through someone else’s plan.
HOW GRETCHEN WORKS
Nine approaches, and your faith if you want it
Gretchen integrates insight-oriented skills-based work, and will include your faith, spirituality, or higher power where that is meaningful to you. The approaches below get selected around the person, not applied in order.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Gretchen treats – who Gretchen sees
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Addiction
- Marriage & Couples
- Emotional Abuse
- Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting (individual)
- Codependency
- Grief & Loss
- Life Transitions
- Caregiver Stress
- LGBTQ+
- Workplace Stress
- Self-Esteem
For trauma
Bilingual — and one of only two here
“Emotional healing starts with being honest about what hurts.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Safe and nonjudgmental. And you are involved.
Her therapeutic approach is client-centered and strengths-based, integrating insight-oriented skills-based interventions while honoring each client’s faith, spirituality, or higher power when meaningful to them. She gently encourages clients to explore the root causes of their symptoms and develop greater awareness of emotional and relational patterns.
ABOUT GRETCHEN
Peace, perspective, and trust in yourself
Gretchen Echegoyen is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Eastern University and her Master of Social Work from Rutgers University.
She works with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, emotional pain, relationship difficulties, stress, and feelings of disconnection or unhealthy boundaries. Her therapeutic approach is client-centered and strengths-based, integrating insight-oriented skills-based interventions while honoring each client’s faith, spirituality, or higher power when that is meaningful to them — and leaving it entirely alone when it is not.
Gretchen gently encourages clients to explore the root causes of their symptoms and develop greater awareness of emotional and relational patterns. Creating a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space is a priority in every session; she wants clients to feel seen, heard, and actively involved in their own healing rather than processed through someone else’s plan.
She is passionate about working with clients navigating transitions, grief and loss, and those seeking sobriety, and her background includes work as a behavioral health consultant in a primary care setting. Through therapy, many of her clients have found greater peace, gained new perspectives, strengthened their relationships, and rebuilt trust in themselves. She is also a clinical supervisor, and offers sessions in English and Spanish.
Languages Spoken
One of two bilingual clinicians
Faith-Integrated If You Want It
And left alone if you do not
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Gretchen Echegoyen
Mental Health
It’s Okay to No Estar Bien
In Philadelphia’s Latino community, strength and sacrifice run deep — and it’s still okay to ask for help. Therapy en español means being understood in your own language and culture, without leaving either at the door. Está bien pedir ayuda.
Couples & Marriage
The Same Fight, On Repeat
Most couples don’t come to therapy because the love is gone — they come because they keep having the same argument and can’t find the exit. The content of the fight rarely matters; the pattern underneath it does. Couples therapy helps you see that pattern, interrupt it, and rebuild the connection beneath the conflict.
Information
Choosing the Right Therapist: Questions to Ask
Choosing the right therapist can set the tone for your whole experience. The essential questions to ask — and why trusting your intuition matters.