EXPERIENCE, COMPASSION & SUPPORT
Our Services
I always dreamed...
I always dreamed of bringing a practice of dedicated, exceptional mental health professionals to Bucks County to promote healthy relationships and positive mental health treatment. I’m so proud to offer our community eight licensed MFTs, and two licensed LPCs with special Art and Play Therapy certifications in one great location, available 7 days a week with almost 300 combined hours of availability!
Each of us has additional certifications or specialties that enhance our education and therapy modality, including trauma, mindfulness, eating disorders and substance abuse. Working together and sharing our belief in the foundation of systems theory and the importance of relationships in mental health creates a unique experience for our clients and our therapist family.
Our complex parenting services expand our expertise in divorce and child-custody matters.
Therapy & Medication
Individual and group therapy for the whole family.-
Anxiety
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Grief
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Life changes
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Behavioral issues
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Relationship conflicts
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Mental health conditions
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Rx & medication management
Complex Parenting
Navigate unique parenting situations.-
Co-parenting
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Parenting coordinator
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Reunification therapy
Parent coordination is a child-focused, hybrid legal-mental health role that combines assessment, education, case management, dispute resolution and at times, decision making functions.
Reunification therapy is specific therapy to heal the relationship between a parent and child, where there has been a physical separation or significant time apart.
Yoga & Sound Healing
Relieve stress, improve concentration and calming.-
Stress & anxiety reduction
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Improves depression
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Helps ADHD
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Reduces insomnia
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Physical & social well-being
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Improves self-confidence
Therapy & Medication
Individual and group therapy for the whole family.-
Anxiety
-
Grief
-
Life changes
-
Behavioral issues
-
Relationship conflicts
-
Mental health conditions
-
Rx & medication management
Complex Parenting
Navigate unique parenting situations.-
Co-parenting
-
Parenting coordinator
-
Reunification therapy
Parent coordination is a child-focused, hybrid legal-mental health role that combines assessment, education, case management, dispute resolution and at times, decision making functions.
Reunification therapy is specific therapy to heal the relationship between a parent and child, where there has been a physical separation or significant time apart.
Yoga & Sound Healing
Relieve stress, improve concentration and calming.-
Stress & anxiety reduction
-
Improves depression
-
Helps ADHD
-
Reduces insomnia
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Physical & social well-being
-
Improves self-confidence
Individual Therapy
Therapy is an opportunity to meet confidentially with a trained professional who listens to your thoughts, feelings and stressors without judgement or telling you what to do. People seek therapy for many reasons: feeling overwhelmed or out of sorts; unable to enjoy activities they once did; anxiety, grief, changes in life, behavioral issues, relationship conflicts and mental health conditions that negatively impact their lives and their families.
Therapy is effective treatment for many issues we all face each day. Therapy, can also lead to personal growth and self-reflection, creating great relationships, improving communication, becoming an excellent parent, understanding what holds you back from attaining goals, and simply for continued mental wellness.
Group Therapy
Group therapy provides support and an opportunity to understand yourself and heal by listening and sharing with others that have similar issues or at the same stage in life. Groups are led by one or more of our therapists. Groups have been created to address issues for teenage depression and anxiety, social skills for children and teens, divorce, women’s transitions, and new mothers.
Complex Parenting Services
Amy Tielemans & Associates provides three additional parenting resources including co-parenting, reunification therapy and parent coordinator services. These services are often court mandated, or recommended, and are not covered by insurance.
Co-PArenting
Co-parenting involves parents in a separated home working together to create an environment where your children have the freedom to enjoy their time and create happy healthy relationships with both parents. Ideally, parents communicate, make decisions and support the other parent without conflict, in the best interests of your children.
In cases of high conflict divorce, co-parenting counseling is helpful if parents are unable parent jointly without continued conflict. Co-parenting counseling is not the same as couple or family therapy. The goal is to help you reduce conflict, resolve misunderstandings, communicate and make decisions together to create and follow a parenting plan that works for you and your children.
Co-parenting counseling is not covered by mental health insurance. Mental health insurance is coverage for treatment of diagnosed mental health disorders. While mental health disorders are sometimes at the root of conflict, those disorders are treated during mental health therapy, not the co-parenting process.
My associates and I work with individuals, couples and families that seek to improve a relationship in a situation, with a partner, their family, or maybe just themselves.
PArenting Coordinator
Parent coordination is a child-focused, hybrid legal-mental health role that combines assessment, education, case management, dispute resolution and at times, decision making functions.
As a parent coordinator for Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties, my role is to help resolve those day to day parenting issues that arise within families where separated and divorced parents are unable to come to an agreement as to what is in the best interest of their children.
The parenting coordinator hopes to simplify decision making between parents or can make a recommendation when the parties are unable to do so. The parenting coordinator does not provide legal advice or mediation, or individual, couple or family therapy. The intentions are focused on issues specific to decision making that is in the best interest of your children, fostering healthy parent child relationships and preparing children to become successful, happy adults.
Parent coordination differs from psychotherapy and mediation as there is no therapist/client privilege. Communication between the parties or their attorneys and the parenting coordinator is not confidential.
In order to make an educated recommendation, I may seek consultation with other professionals or individuals that can provide more information to facilitate a thoughtful decision. This would include the child/children, therapists, physicians, childcare providers, teachers or other family members. I will ask for releases from both parties to contact these additional resources.
The end result is a written summary, provided to both parties and their attorneys, documenting parental agreements and/or parenting coordinator recommendations and rationales required by the court.
Reunification Therapy
Reunification therapy is specific therapy to heal the relationship between a parent and child, where there has been a physical separation or significant time apart. We believe that whenever possible, it is in the child’s best interest to have a positive relationship with both parents.
High conflict during divorce, incarceration, previous domestic abuse, a child’s refusal to attend custodial time with one parent, and safety concerns are some reasons for separations that bring a family to participate in reunification therapy.
The goal of reunification therapy is to identify and reduce the conflict between the parent and child to help create a positive, sustainable relationship. Since it likely took time to create this type of estrangement, it may take time to heal the relationship.
Prior to combined meetings of the estranged parent and the children, the therapist will meet individually with each parent. and individually with the children. It is important that the children feel safe in the therapy setting and build trust with the therapist.
My associates and I work with individuals, couples and families that seek to improve a relationship in a situation, with a partner, their family, or maybe just themselves.
Yoga & Sound Healing
The mental health and wellness benefits provided by mind-body practices such as yoga, mindfulness based stress reduction and sound healing are unending and compliment talk therapy and medication for those who struggle with mental health issues.
These practices relieve stress, improve concentration and calm the sympathetic nervous system to regulate and improve symptoms of anxiety, depression, ADHD and insomnia. Yoga enhances physical and social well-being through a sense of belonging to others and improves self-confidence.
We value these practices and are excited to offer them to our clients and the community through small groups or individual sessions.
Our yoga classes just started as the covid19 shelter-in-place restrictions started. We look forward to resuming these classes as soon as it is safe. To join a wait list for future yoga, sound healing and mindfulness classes, please contact:al@amytielemans.com
Amy Jill Harraka
Common Issues & Therapy Benefits
We work with individuals, couples, families and adolescents. We help address many issues including those below.
Anxiety
We all get anxious or nervous on occasion, normal anxiety can come and go. However, when anxiety keeps us from doing the things we enjoy, we need to examine its origin and learn coping skills to manage the symptoms. Anxiety disorders include, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety, panic disorders, post- traumatic stress disorder and phobias.
Depression
Depression is a common mental health disorder affecting more than 264 million people. But, when you or someone you love is feeling depressed, it can interfere with all aspects of life and relationships. Depression symptoms include sadness, fatigue, poor concentration, and a lack of interest in things once important or pleasurable. Depression can be short or long lasting and affect your physical health as well as relationships and can be caused by complex issues of social, biological, childhood, trauma, employment and educational issues.
Maternal Mental health/Post-partum Depression
Postpartum depression can start during pregnancy or after the birth of a child. It is a mood disorder with symptoms of sadness, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and fatigue. Often these symptoms are so severe they interfere with a new mother’s ability to function and care for her new child.
Children and Adolescents
Mental health issues that can impede the development of a child into a happy, successful adult include, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ADD, Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, emotional control, behavioral disorders, PTSD, autism spectrum disorder, and learning disorders. In addition to treating these issues, we believe that lasting change includes guiding parents to understand these struggles and have their own “therapy tool kit” to refer to as needed.
Parenting
Children do not come with an instruction book! Parenting has many challenges that evolve daily. We can give you guidance, skills and the support you need to raise a happy, successful adult.
Couples and Marriages
Couple and marriage therapy address the present-day issues of behaviors and needs and seeks to identify the origin of unhealthy patterns from belief systems, previous relationships and family-of-origin issues. Couples learn about themselves, and one another, and learn to share those insights to understand, support and love one another in a healthy sustainable relationship. Even if couples decide that they are not meant to be together, therapy can reveal to both individuals why they did not have a successful relationship.
Improving Relationships
Human relationships are connections between people based on love, family, work, school, and friendships. All relationships can face ups and downs and suffer from issues around communication, trust, respect, and attention. We need strong, healthy, sustainable relationships in our daily lives. We work to identify and repair relationships in all aspects of life.
Divorce
Therapy for divorce can happen, before, during and after divorce. Divorce is traumatic and disrupts the mental and physical health of the couple, children, pets, family, friends, etc. Everyone involved begins a new journey and learns a "new normal." Divorce related therapy can help spouses remain civil and work together in the best interests of themselves and everyone involved and identifies issues in the marriage to prevent them from arising in new relationships.
Grief & Loss
Grief is a natural response to a physical loss, as in the death of a loved one, or the social loss of a job, a relationship or simply what you remember as the “normal” way of life. Grief impacts our emotions, behavior, mental health, physical health, decision making, and even our values and belief systems. Therapy leads to insight, acceptance and healing through an extremely difficult time.
Stress Management
We all experience stress, but sometimes our stress impacts our physical and mental health in ways that leave us unable to successfully function each day. Therapy for stress management helps identify the causes of acute and chronic stress whether it be toxic relationships, work or school pressures, negative self-talk, lack of self-confidence or unresolved conflicts from the present or past.
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Alcohol and substance abuse affect all members of the family. Therapy will help to identify dysfunctional family patterns and conflict that contribute to continued substance abuse, and support and encourage improved communication, shared feelings, regained trust, and the importance of boundaries and self-care for all members in the family.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of remaining in the present, while learning to accept and acknowledge your own thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical sensations in your own body. Often our minds vacillate between the past and the future so quickly, we completely miss where we are in the present. Learning to connect your breath and remain present is a powerful way to take control of your stress, relieve pain and increase the quality of our relationships.
Trauma and Complex Trauma
Complex trauma occurs with repeated trauma experiences over time. It can begin in childhood, or as an adult, due to domestic violence, social or civil unrest, sexual exploitation, or community violence. Identifying and acknowledging the trauma and the survivor’s strengths and resiliency can lead to healing and reduce the impact on present relationships and everyday life.
Supervision for Pre-Licensed Therapists
AT&A has four AAMFT approved supervisors dedicated to support and mentor new therapists through clinical training, personal growth as a competent and confident therapist. We prepare couples and family therapists, professional counselors, and clinical social workers for their licensing requirements.
Contact us
The best way to reach us is to call 215-822-1975 and speak with Al. We will respond to the form below as soon as possible. Please do not include any emergency or highly personal information on this form.
In case of a mental health crisis (when someone’s behavior risks harm to themselves or others, or limits their ability to care for themselves, or function safely in the community) please call 911 or go to your hospital emergency room. Dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours, in English & Spanish.
Contact us
Please contact us today. Our office manager Al is happy to answer your questions and discuss options with our practice.
- 215-822-1975
- hello@amytielemans.com
- 4451 West Swamp Road Doylestown PA 18902
“Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” – Deborah Day.