Gallo & Associates Psychological Services

60 Snyder Road
Hermitage, PA 16148  Tel 724.346.3838
  Fax 724.346.4339

fgallo@energypsych.com

Gallo & Associates is a private clinical psychology practice that offers services tailored to the individual needs of clients. Therapeutically we emphasize helping people to reclaim their psychological and emotional health by teaching and instilling the principles at the basis of healthy psychological functioning. Successful therapy results in the client becoming self-empowered. The focus of treatment is not on pathology or mental illness, but rather on the ingredients that constitute mental health.  Services include the following: 

Individual Therapy:  Therapeutic services are available to individuals (children, adolescents, and adults).  Treatment is tailored to the client on the basis of detailed information obtained during intake and throughout therapy.  In many instances treatment is quite brief, since our approach precisely focuses on eliminating the fundamental causes of emotional distress and assisting the client in directly changing behaviors.  Our approach is highly effective for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phobias, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), agoraphobia, panic disorder, adjustment disorders, grief, depression, addictions, tobacco dependence, eating disorders, weight reduction, some physical pain problems, and many other conditions.   

Couples Therapy:  Services are also available to couples who are experiencing distress in their relationship and would prefer to improve their interactions rather than terminate their relationship.  Our approach involves assisting couples in directly changing their behavior toward each other and overcoming resentments, ineffective interaction patterns, and improve the overall quality of their emotional and physical experience with each other.  Couples are also assisted in applying highly effective relationship principles so they will be able to continue to enhance their relationship throughout their lives.  The therapeutic interaction is based on effective communication and conflict is kept at a minimum throughout the therapeutic process.   

Family Intervention: A variety of services are available to families.  In addition to family therapy, we also offer behavior specialist consultation, community-based intervention, and in-home intervention in cooperation with family-based mental health programs. This is GAPS-WP, a wraparound program that specializes in individual, family, and community-based support and treatment for children and adolescents suffering from the effects of trauma: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related anxiety, adjustment, behavioral and learning problems. We apply modern therapeutic modalities to resolve problems and to assist consumers in reclaiming health. GAPS-WP is also rooted in the practical understanding that lasting results require commitment and participation of the family with a primary focus on solutions rather than problems.    

Telephone Consultation Services: While the demand for Advanced Energy Psychology and EDxTM treatment and consultation services is strong and continues to grow, the supply of practitioners is limited in terms of geographical coverage. Presently AEP/EDxTM practitioners are concentrated into a few geographical areas (see the EDxTM Certified Practitioners section of this website). This service will make AEP/EDxTM available in presently neglected areas. Services are available and are customized according to the client's needs. We have successfully treated many problems over the telephone. Frequency and length of sessions is flexible. In many cases sessions might be scheduled weekly.  It should be noted, however, that some problems are better treated in person and in such instances telephone consultations will not be recommended or offered as an adjunct to contact with a therapist in your area.  

Professional Coaching and Success Management:  Coaching provides an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaching helps people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.  This approach involves customizing to individual client needs by eliciting solutions and strategies from the client and assisting the client in accessing creativity and resources. Coaching is not a therapeutic approach and is not suited to the treatment of clinical problems.  It is highly beneficial in assisting individuals and companies in achieving peak performance, success, and in finding their most lucrative niches.

Psychological Evaluations:  Formal psychological evaluations involve the use of clinical interview and sophisticated testing procedures.  They are employed to determine a variety of psychological, neuropsychological, and cognitive functioning issues or problems.  These tests are employed at the request of parents to assist in the educational and mental health guidance for their children or adolescents, physicians, managers, police departments, attorneys, and judges.  Evaluations are conducted for the following: neuropsychological functioning, chronic pain management, disability determination, educational and vocational planning, custody determination, and bariatric surgery.