CCSWPA FOCUSES ON MENTAL HEALTH, NOT MENTAL ILLNESS.

Meet our team of therapists.

Jennifer Pravlik

Ph.D., LPC, CAADC, CCTP

Jennifer has over 20 years of experience working with all types of emotional turmoil, stress, grief, etc. Jennifer promotes self-care in the consumers she works with and those she supervises. She personally enjoys paper crafts, puzzles and mind games, essential oils, and coloring.

Jennifer has been providing mental health services since 1996. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania since 2004. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADCP).

In Jennifer’s Words

As a therapist, I have found that coming to therapy and discussing difficulties in your life is hard, to say the least. There may be uncomfortable events that need to be visited, traumatic situations that induce fear just entertaining the idea of repeating them out loud, or concerns of re-experiencing the trauma.

I employ different techniques to allow this process to be manageable as well as productive. I believe each person and each situation is different and requires different avenues to process through life’s challenges without being re-traumatized. However, if you don’t allow yourself to feel, you don’t allow yourself to heal.

Tony Schrim

Tony has been a professional helper since the 1970’s and has a broad and yet specific treatment experience in a variety of settings; venues:

• Child protective services
• Residential treatment
• Home and community based treatment services
• Foster care and adoption
• Family preservation and family reunification

Tony has worked with a variety of treatment populations and problems:

• Homelessness
• Addiction
• Mental illness
• Delinquency
• Divorce and custody
• Child abuse and neglect
• Domestic violence
• Truancy

Tony has a variety of education and training in the areas of:

• Child development
• Structural and strategic family counseling
• Skill training in communications, anger management, parenting
• Childhood trauma
• Attachment

Tony has been identified by the courts as an expert witness in child development, attachment and family counseling.  Tony believes that counseling needs to focus on positives of a person’s life and that bad experiences can be placed in the past where they belong without reliving them and without being confronted about them.

Susan E. McAninch

LCSW

Susan has over 30 years of experience in the human services field with a focus on populations who have experienced trauma: domestic violence, relationship abuse, child abuse and neglect and incest. Through a variety of local agencies, she honed her counseling skills for working through these issues with individuals of all genders and ages. She has the also taught for 11 years as an adjunct instructor at a local University. She became licensed as a clinical social worker in 2004.
Susan has a strong interest in providing DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) skill building as part of her therapeutic model. She has been helping people learn to tolerate distress and find new ways to interact with others and the world in general. During a counseling session with Susan, prepare to learn many new skills and different techniques that will support an ongoing healthy lifestyle. Susan’s calming personality and positive outlook makes for a relaxed and supportive therapeutic environment!

In Susan’s Words

I practice mindfulness and meditation in my personal life which has helped tremendously with my own emotional regulation. I practice a positive work/home balance that allows me to consistently develop new counseling skills (a new certification) and keep home time available for a house full of cats and chihuahuas. I enjoy sipping tea while watching the sunset and observing the night sky. Gardening has become a new hobby that will hopefully improve with practice.