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
Addiction
What Therapy Actually Does in Recovery
In recovery, stopping and staying stopped are two different challenges. Detox, rehab, and recovery programs help you stop; therapy helps with what comes after — the reasons the substance was useful in the first place. It builds coping skills, emotional regulation, and self-understanding, and works alongside (never instead of) recovery programs and medical treatment. Nicole Duley, LPC specializes in addiction treatment in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Children & Adolescents
Tween to Teen: When Your Child Changes & You Can’t Say When
Somewhere between about ten and fourteen, many children pull away, go quiet, or get moodier — often with no event you can point to. Much of this is normal development, but not all of it. The useful thing isn’t to decide between “just a phase” and “something serious” on your own, but to know which changes are ordinary and which are worth a conversation with a professional. Caitie Beatty, LSW works with children and teens in Altoona and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Mental Health
Strengths-Based Therapy: A Kinder Approach to Hard Times
Strengths-based therapy focuses on identifying and building on the strengths, resilience, and resources a person already has, rather than concentrating only on what’s broken. It doesn’t ignore real problems — it approaches them from a place of capability and hope. Everyone who has survived hard things already carries strengths worth building on. Haley Childers, LSW uses a warm, strengths-based approach at CPA Counseling in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.