Patricia Barone, MSW, ACSW, LCSW co-founded West Hartford Counseling Center.  She has sixteen years of experience working with individuals, couples and groups.  She has completed Hartford Family Institute’s post-graduate training program, where she was on staff for one year.  She has extensive training in sandtray therapy.  Patricia’s areas of expertise include depression, anxiety and relationship difficulties.  She integrates hypnosis, sandtray therapy, and imagery with traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Patricia believes that we each have inner wisdom that can guide us and that psychotherapy is an effective way to access this powerful tool.
 

Frances Brown, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a practicing psychotherapist since 1986. She works with individuals and couples helping them to develop understanding, awareness and skills to manage their issues and relationships.

Francie's warmth and love of life permeates her work. She believes that much healing can take place within  the therapeutic relationship.
Her clinical interests include women's issues, grief and loss work, personal growth and substance abuse recovery. She combines traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy with body awareness and imagery.
 

Jayne Dean, LMFT, LADC, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a practicing psychotherapist since 1987. She is an AAMFT approved supervisor and a registered play therapist and supervisor. She is a certified Expressive Movement Therapist and a certified Shake Your Soul®/Kripalu DansKinetics Instructor. She provides clinical consultation and training to professionals from private and public agencies. She has led workshops on sandtray therapy, play therapy, and expressive movement therapy in the USA and Europe. She specializes in working with relationship issues, family-of-origin issues, mood disorders, eating disorders and addictions.

Aimee Golbert, LCSW, ACSW, BCD is a co-founder of West Hartford Counseling Center and a practicing psychotherapist since 1986. She is a graduate of Hartford Family Institute's Body-Centered Gestalt Therapy Training Program and served on the faculty as a supervisor/teacher. She has also trained extensively in Permissive Hypnotherapy, Sandtray Therapy and EMDR. In addition to private practice, she supervises other clinicians and has led training workshops in the USA and Europe. Currently, she specializes in working with anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, family of origin issues, grief and loss, trauma resolution, and women's issues. She incorporates a deep belief in process into her work with adults.

Ruth Hofstatter, LPC, NCC is a licensed professional counselor, with post-graduate training from Hartford Family Institute and Hartford Seminary (Women's Leadership Institute). She is also trained in mediation and collaborative divorce. Her practice encompasses working with individuals, couples and families, as well as running psycho-educational groups. Ruth's clinical interests include the treatment of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, fertility and adoption issues. She is also a personal and corporate coach, working with individuals and groups, as well as leading training and retreat workshops, particularly enjoying those focused on the creative process. A grounding principle of her work is to foster change in the present, in the context of one's past.
 

Anne Parente, LCSW, Personal and Professional Life Coach, has over 25 years experience in counseling and psychotherapy. She is trained in Body-Centered Gestalt therapy, Professional life coaching, Imago Relationship Skills Training (certified), EMDR (Level II towards certification),and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Anne loves to learn and believes life and healing are best approached holistically. She works with people individually, in couples and groups who are motivated to address issues of addiction/recovery, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression and aging. With couples, she offers Imago as the primary approach. In all of this she draws from the deep well of spiritually and mindfulness, nuts and bolts wisdom and an absolute faith in each persons unique life path.