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
The Same Hill, Two Experiences: Tandem Cycling & CBT
The same hill can feel completely different to two people riding it together — for one, speed means danger; for the other, speed means fun. That gap is a central idea in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): our emotions are shaped not only by what happens to us, but by how we interpret it. CBT helps us notice those automatic interpretations and respond with more balance. Christina Binder, LSW practices in Center City Philadelphia and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Relationships
What Actually Changes in Couples Therapy
Most couples arrive at therapy still hopeful — tired of the same argument and wanting it to stop, not deciding whether to leave. With me, a session isn’t two people venting while someone nods: I give feedback and hand over usable skills, using the Gottman Method to find the pattern underneath the conflict. Ashlie Mohney, LPC works with couples in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Relationships
Codependency: When Caring for Someone Costs You Yourself
Codependency is a pattern — not a diagnosis — where your sense of self becomes tied to managing, pleasing, or rescuing someone else, and your own needs get filed under “later” permanently. It’s usually a skill that was learned somewhere and once kept you safe. Because it’s a pattern rather than a disorder, it can change. Kelly Schworn, LPC offers person-centered therapy in English and Spanish in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and across Pennsylvania.