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
Grief & Loss
Grief Before Goodbye: Hospice & Palliative Care Support
When a loved one is facing a serious illness or entering hospice, families often experience anticipatory grief — mourning while the person is still here — along with caregiver exhaustion, guilt, and complicated emotions. Palliative care focuses on comfort and quality of life at any stage of serious illness; hospice focuses on comfort when curative treatment ends. Therapy supports caregivers and families through the grief, the caregiving, and the goodbye. Haley Childers, LSW helps families across Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Anxiety
What Is OCD, Really? It’s More Than Being Neat
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a treatable anxiety-related condition made up of obsessions — unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that cause intense anxiety — and compulsions, the behaviors or mental rituals a person does to relieve that anxiety. It is not about being tidy or organized, and the intrusive thoughts do not reflect what someone wants. The leading treatment is ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention). Jessika Izzo, LPC helps adolescents and adults with OCD and anxiety at CPA Counseling in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area.
Anxiety
Why Do I Keep Overthinking Everything?
Overthinking is your mind looping on the past (rumination) or rehearsing the future (worry) in an attempt to feel safe or in control — and it’s a core feature of anxiety, not a character flaw. It feels productive but rarely resolves anything, and it steals the present moment. With support, you can learn to tolerate uncertainty, interrupt the loop, and let a decision be “good enough.” Dana Werner, LMSW helps people with overthinking and anxiety at CPA Counseling’s Robinson office in Pittsburgh’s West Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.