Elkins Park, PA Local Support & Community Resources

Marquita Bolden is a Clinical Social Worker and Therapist who expertly holds space for adults healing from childhood trauma, racial trauma, and gendered trauma. Understanding that trauma reflects deeply stressful events leaving significant physical, emotional, or spiritual scars, she recognizes the uniqueness of each person's experience. Marquita emphasizes the body's role as an alarm system, alerting individuals when trauma has occurred, which can disrupt sleep and fill thoughts with fear or anger. Together with her clients, she embarks on a journey to uncover strategies that ground their bodies, helping them reclaim a sense of safety. She provides EMDR, a specialized approach focused on managing trauma and its related distressing memories. Her practice is deeply rooted in a feminist perspective, keenly aware of how systemic and personal experiences of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and cissexism shape trauma. Marquita's relational therapeutic approach underscores the importance of the connection established during therapy, fostering a bond of trust that cultivates an environment where clients feel safe and genuinely respected as they navigate their healing journey.

Carol Brockmon is a dedicated Clinical Social Worker and therapist specializing in trauma, PTSD, and relationship challenges. With her support, individuals and couples can embark on a journey to uncover the gentlest path to the heart of their matters. Carol focuses on fostering personal growth and development, enhancing relationships, and providing healing insights that empower her clients to recognize their own competencies, explore new possibilities, and build meaningful connections with significant others. As an experienced gestalt psychotherapist and coach, she skillfully navigates the dynamics of intimate and strategic relationships, including partnerships, families, friendships, groups, organizations, and workplaces. Carol welcomes couples from all walks of life and assists individuals grappling with life-cycle issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, and topics related to sexual orientation and cultural diversity. With a systems-oriented perspective, she skillfully considers the context of her clients' relationships. Carol's respectful, direct, and perceptive nature, combined with her practical approach, enables her to provide a wealth of valuable tools and practices across emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual dimensions.

Craig David Leber, MS, BCBA, LBS, specializes in offering Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside humanistic behavioral approaches to individuals grappling with Autism, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia. His foundation as a behaviorist underscores his commitment to the significance of the therapeutic relationship, providing clients with unconditional regard. With a personal narrative as a father of a child diagnosed with ASD and his own journey of recovery from mental illness, Craig brings invaluable insight into the stories of those he serves. His unique life experiences enhance his ability to connect with clients, empowering them to navigate their own paths toward recovery. Craig's integrated approach helps many clients harness their inner strength and resilience, guiding them toward the fulfilling lives they deserve. He understands that major mental illness can be both debilitating and traumatic, inducing significant stress for clients and their families, yet he firmly believes in the potential for recovery and transformation.