: We offer a range of specialized therapy services for individuals, couples, and families — both in person at our Haddonfield, NJ office and virtually across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut.

For individuals:

• Ongoing Individual Therapy — weekly or biweekly sessions focused on healing from trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and early relational wounds

• Individual Therapy Intensives — extended, focused sessions using EMDR and Brainspotting for clients who want meaningful progress without long-term weekly commitment

For couples and families:

• Ongoing Couples Therapy — using Gottman Method and EFT to improve communication, rebuild trust, and strengthen connection

• Relationship Reset — a structured 6-week program for couples who feel stuck and want a clear, guided path forward

• The One-Day Couples Intensive — a private, extended session for couples navigating betrayal, high conflict, or a relationship at a crossroads

• Premarital Counseling Workshops — for engaged couples who want to build their marriage on a foundation that will actually hold

• Family Estrangement & Reunification Therapy — for adult children, parents, and siblings working to repair fractured family relationships

Specialized services:

• Immigration Psychological Evaluations — comprehensive clinical evaluations with written reports for immigration cases, prepared in coordination with attorneys

We offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can ask questions, get a feel for our approach, and figure out which service is the right fit. There's no pressure — just a conversation.

We offer appointments on evenings and weekends]. Virtual sessions offer additional flexibility. Contact us to discuss scheduling options that work for you.

We are in-network with Horizon BCBS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, and Aetna , which means if you carry one of those plans, your sessions are billed directly through your insurance at your normal copay or coinsurance rate.

If your insurance isn't on that list, we also work with out-of-network benefits. We handle the billing on your behalf, you pay your portion at the time of the session, and we file the claim with your insurer directly. Many clients are surprised by how much their out-of-network benefits cover. We recommend calling the member services number on the back of your insurance card and asking specifically about your out-of-network mental health benefits before your first appointment.

Either way, we're happy to help you figure out what your coverage looks like before you commit to anything.

Yes, absolutely. Grounded Growth Counseling is an LGBTQ+-affirming practice. We welcome gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and nonbinary clients, as well as same-sex couples and partnerships of all structures. Our therapists are trained to provide care that is sensitive to the specific experiences — including family-of-origin wounds, identity, and relationship dynamics — that LGBTQ+ individuals and couples may bring to therapy.

Yes. We work with partners at all stages and in all structures — dating, cohabiting, engaged, married, remarried, and non-traditional arrangements. What matters is that you're both committed to doing the work together.

Yes. Confidentiality is foundational to the therapeutic relationship. What you share in sessions remains private. There are a small number of legally mandated exceptions — such as imminent risk of harm or abuse of a minor — which we discuss transparently during your first session so you always know where the boundaries are.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a highly researched, evidence-based therapy for trauma that helps the brain process and integrate distressing memories that feel "stuck." Rather than requiring you to talk through your trauma in detail, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — often guided eye movements — to help your nervous system complete the processing it couldn't finish at the time of the event. Leana Sykes is trained in EMDR and offers it as part of her individual therapy intensives.

Brainspotting is a trauma-focused therapy that works by locating specific eye positions — "brainspots" — that correlate with areas of emotional activation in the brain and body. It is a powerful complement to talk therapy, particularly for trauma, performance issues, and emotional blocks that don't resolve through insight alone. Leana integrates Brainspotting with IFS-informed approaches for deep, lasting change.

Regular therapy involves weekly or biweekly 50-minute sessions over an extended period. A therapy intensive is a concentrated, extended format — typically several hours in one or two days — that creates uninterrupted space to go deeper faster. Intensives are especially effective for people who have limited time for ongoing weekly therapy, who want meaningful progress on a specific issue, or who have found that shorter sessions don't allow enough time to get to the core of what needs to shift. We offer both individual and couples intensives at Grounded Growth.

EFT, or Emotionally Focused Therapy, is one of the most extensively researched approaches to couples work. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, it focuses on the emotional bond between partners — helping couples identify the negative interaction cycles they're caught in, understand the attachment needs underneath those cycles, and build more secure, responsive connection.

The Gottman Method is a couples therapy approach based on over four decades of research on what makes relationships succeed or fail. It gives couples practical, evidence-based tools for improving communication, managing conflict without causing damage, and building friendship and intimacy. Monet Kendall-Turner uses Gottman Method principles in her ongoing couples sessions.

PACT stands for Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy. It is an intensive, research-based framework for couples work developed by Dr. Stan Tatkin that draws on three fields of science: attachment theory, which looks at how early relationships shape the way we connect and protect ourselves; neuroscience, which examines how the brain and nervous system respond in close relationships; and arousal regulation, which addresses how each partner manages stress, activation, and emotional overwhelm in real time.

What makes PACT different from other approaches is its focus on what happens between partners in the present moment — not just what they say, but how they say it, what their bodies are doing, how quickly they dysregulate, and how well they can return to safety together. A PACT therapist pays close attention to these moment-to-moment shifts and uses them as the actual material of the work.

Leana Sykes is PACT-trained and draws on this framework in her couples intensives. It is particularly well-suited to the intensive format, where there is enough uninterrupted time to work with the patterns as they arise — rather than just talking about them.

An immigration psychological evaluation is a formal clinical assessment conducted by a licensed mental health professional and submitted as part of an immigration case. Courts and immigration attorneys use these evaluations to document the psychological impact of a client's circumstances — including trauma, hardship, persecution, family separation, or the potential consequences of deportation.

We offer comprehensive immigration psychological evaluations at Grounded Growth Counseling. The process includes a thorough clinical interview, relevant psychological assessment measures where appropriate, and a detailed written report prepared to meet the standards required for legal review. We work closely with immigration attorneys throughout the process to ensure our reports are clear, objective, trauma-informed, and useful to your case.

We provide evaluations for a range of immigration matters, including but not limited to:

• Asylum and Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims — documenting trauma, persecution, and fear of return

• VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) petitions — for survivors of domestic violence or abuse

• U-Visa and T-Visa applications — for survivors of crime or human trafficking

• Hardship waivers — documenting the psychological impact of separation on qualifying relatives

• Cancellation of removal — supporting claims of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship

If you are unsure whether an evaluation applies to your case, we recommend consulting with your immigration attorney first. We are happy to speak with your attorney directly to determine whether our services are the right fit.

The evaluation process typically involves one to two clinical interviews, followed by the preparation of a written report. Turnaround time is generally 5 days from the date of the first interview, though we can discuss expedited timelines when case deadlines require it. We offer the most affordable, and low cost evaluations in the the area starting at $850.