19 North Centre Street Merchantville, NJ 08109
Phone: 856.662.4100 Fax:856.662.6110
Wellspring Center, LLC opened its doors in Moorestown, NJ on October 15, 1998. Paula Ryan and Elaine Prendergast wished to create a holistic psychotherapy practice offering individual, couples, and family therapy to men, women, and adolescents in the Burlington/Camden County area. Both are Licensed Clinical Social Workers with experience in community mental health, psychiatric, and school settings. Their many years of experience as students and teachers of hatha yoga has reinforced a strong belief in the relationship of body, mind, and spirit in the healing process. The Wellspring philosophy is wellness-based, focusing on clients' strengths. Clients are supported in honoring their emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, while fostering intimacy with themselves and others to achieve radical self-acceptance within a context of change.
Elaine began her career in social work in 1989, providing chemical dependency treatment services for adults and adolescents in rehab and community mental health settings. In 1997, she moved to South Jersey, and became involved with the Womens' Trauma Program at Hampton Hospital, facilitating outpatient groups for addictions and eating disorders, and providing individual treatment for those with mood and anxiety disorders. As a practitioner of yoga and psychotherapy, she has concluded that the body is truly a metaphor for the mind. And the mind for the body. She enjoys integrating these practices for those who are willing, empowering her clients to participate wholesomely in their treatment and recovery. She is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, experiential focusing, and stress management, and offers their principles to individuals and groups. She facilitates Wellspring Center's Sunday night A Course in Miracles study group.Elaine M. Prendergast, LCSW, LCADCPhone: 856.912.4015
Paula has practiced and taught Hatha Yoga and Meditation since 1972. She taught yoga and was on staff at the Himalayan Institute Center for Holistic Medicine in Buffalo, NY. Paula is certified as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500 (E-RYT) since December 2002, and is influenced by the Himalayan Institute tradition. She has also studied with Joan White in the Iyengar tradition and is also enjoying the Ana Forrest style of teaching.
Paula strongly believes in the body-mind connection. She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and holds an MSW in social work since 1991. Since 2008 she has been studying Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) as developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, based on a scientific understanding of attachment and love and their central importance in human life. She has an advanced certification for Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, with Diane Zimberoff, LCSW. A breast cancer survivor since 2000, she teaches yoga workshops for other survivors. Paula has a private psychotherapy practice in Merchantville, NJ.
Paula L. Ryan, LCSW, CHt Merchantville, NJ 08109 Phone: 856.-662-1660 FAX: 856-662-8110
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