All Our Therapists Are Licensed Trained Professionals & On Most Major Insurance Panels.

QUALITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, ETHNICITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER, AGE, MARITAL STATUS, SIZE, POLITICAL BELIEF, VETERAN STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL CHALLENGE.

Edith Fuchsman, MSSA, LISW-S

When you are ready to feel better, come start becoming who you want to be. The patterns and past experiences in a person’s life build upon another, creating the individual people we each are. Edie Fuchsman will help you examine and understand these experiences, along with your personal values and uniqueness, to create who you wish to become. Along with this is systems approach, Edie uses talk, art work, dream work, stress management techniques, Gestalt techniques, and sensory integration work ( using senses to increase alertness or to decrease overstimulation ). Edie’s specialties include reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stresses; cultural diversity clashes; enhancing relationship dynamics; stress management skills and GLBTQ Issues.

“Edie’s personal manner and her listening skills are exemplary. She has a peaceful and unique thought process that I would hope I can incorporate into my own. And I would become a calm and much more advanced individual, and help share that with others. I’ve had the misfortune of being in and out of therapy repeatedly. With Edie, I know there are tools to get through the dark and into the light.”

-October 17th, 2018-

Lois A. Fridenstine, MSSA, LISW-S, ACHT

Lois is dedicated to providing compassionate care based on good communication, mutual trust, and respect to children ( ages 0 - 10 ), Pre-teens, Teens, Adults, and Families.

She has worked for over forty years in several Lorain County agencies and in her current private practice. Her areas of specialization include Depression, Anxiety, Trauma issues including rape, incest, and childhood emotional, physical, and sexual assault, neglect, poverty; ADHD; Divorce; Victims of Domestic Violence: Foster Care and Adoption; Grief and Loss; Life Adjustment; Relationships; Chronic Illness; Alcoholic Family Systems/Children of Alcoholic Parents; Behavior Management; Self-Esteem; Stress Management and Parenting.

Lois conducts Interventions using Talk Therapy, Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral; Dialectical Behavioral; Mindfulness; Play Therapy; Family Therapy; Heart Centered Hypnotherapy; and Eye Movement Integration.

Lois received her Master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University, and her Advanced Heart Hypnotherapy Training from The Wellness Institute in Issaquah, Washington. She is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervisory Privileges.

She believes safety, trust, acceptance and nurturance are key to a healthy therapeutic relationship. Treatment focuses on the individual's needs and strengths, not weaknesses. Confidentiality and professionalism are extremely important in the therapeutic process.

Mary Deucher, LISW

Mary Deucher, LISW practicing in Oberlin, Ohio for the past sixteen years. Using primary Cognitive Behavior Therapy to help clients deal with anxiety, depression, OCD, adjustment disorders, etc. Working also as a bereavement counselor at an area Hospice she specializes in grief.

Lisette Burwasser, LPC

Do you need to make a change in your life? Are problems weighing on you, or causing anxiety or depression? Are you at a crossroads with no idea as to which direction to take? Are you struggling with LGBTQ or relationship issues? Lisette uses a Gestalt type approach to help you discover your true direction and become more yourself. Lisette’s specialties include grief and loss, lifestyle changes, anxiety and depression, and LGBTQ transitions and problems. Lisette made a career change and graduated from Kent State University’s counseling program in 2006. She worked for the Nord Center briefly, and joined Plum Creek Associates. She counsels adults, and older adults.

Barbara Feldmar, M.S.,LISW, ACHT

Barbara Feldmar, a Licensed Independent Social Worker, has worked with children, adolescents, and adults for over forty years in various community mental health and private practice settings. She is currently semi-retired, and welcoming clients looking for expertise in trauma recovery, family and adult growth, and relationship issues, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and behavioral difficulties. She was recently certified in Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy from the Wellness Institute, Issaquah, WA, and the Cleveland Clinic Center for Integrative Medicine.

In her work understanding the dynamics of early family experiences on current struggles, divorce, and child custody issues, minority and differing economic background issues, she uses art and play therapy, expressive therapies, behavioral approaches, and deep relaxation hypnotherapeutic approaches.

She worked in Berkeley, California, New York City, and London before coming to Oberlin, Ohio, and she has consulted with Jungian and psychodynamically-oriented therapists, early childhood therapists, teachers and consultants, and Heart-Centered Hypnotherapists.

Philip L. Verda, M.Ed., PCC-S

Philip has spent his entire adult life working with a wide variety of people and issues, often involving crisis intervention, and immediate problem solving. His basic counseling orientation is cognitive-behavioral, although he borrows from many other counseling theories as the individual situation dictates.

He believes that all of us face times in our lives when we deal with an issue, which we find cannot be resolved solely through the use of our personal skills and abilities. In such a situation, we often turn to a counselor for help. At this point, he believes it is the counselor’s job to help these people clearly identify what the problems are, how these people are impacting their lives, what can be done about them and then assist these people in the implementation of changes they have chosen to make in their lives. In this way, they can be helped to regain control of their lives and be strengthened by the knowledge that THEY have been able to resolve the issue.

Philip believes that all persons who enter the counseling experience carry with themselves the ability to resolve their issue. His job is to bring the therapeutic toolbox to the counseling session and empower them to decide which tool will best be able to help them do the job.

Although Philip works with many types of clients, he has a special interest in domestic violence and abuse, alcohol and substance abuse, adult and children alcoholics, family dysfunction, life stage issues, Personality Disorders, and couples work.

Philip is a Professional Clinic Counselor with Supervisory Endorsement Ohio License, PCC-S, with a master’s of Education in Community Counseling and has post graduate study at the University of Akron (Doctoral Level).