Joe is a licensed professional counselor who conducts his private psychology practice in Philadelphia, PA. Working with individuals, couples, and families, Joe can be best characterized as a peak performance, strength based, future focused practitioner who facilitates therapy as an experiential process. He specializes in solution-focused/strategic therapy while having an expertise in clinical and medical hypnotherapy.
Joe practices a state of the art approach to the treatment of anxiety. Clients are taught via mindfulness, hypnotic zone experience, and strategic task assignments. Joe also specializes in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, pain management, and habit control for weight management and smoking cessation.
Joe has worked extensively with athletes on the professional, collegiate, and high school level for the past 20 years. As a specialist in peak performance and sport psychology he guides athletes via specialized zone exercises to trust themselves at an extraordinarily high level in order to create and maintain maximum performance.Joe has worked as a corporate consultant, facilitating peak performance seminars for professionals in the pharmaceutical, advertising, and human services industries. He is currently serving as an expert contributor for mPWR10 inc., leading the workshop entitled, Athletes On Track With mPWR10.
Joe has been an invited speaker to numerous national and international conferences. He has also published articles in national and international professional journals (see below).He worked as a clinician and the director of training for The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia from 2000-2009. He currently sees clients out of his home office in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife, Lisa.
Education
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, Villanova, PA
Master of Science, Counseling Psychology, 1992
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, Reading, PA
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, 1987
Licensure & Certification
Awarded Licensure as a Professional Counselor (LPC), The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March, 2002
Professional PublicationsAn Ericksonian Template for Smoking Cessation
The Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis,
Volume 30 Number 2.
Book Review, The Handbook of Ericksonian Psychotherapy
The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Volume 45, #2
Co-authored with John H. Edgette, Psy.D.
TOWARD A NEW SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Newsletter, Vol. 43, #3
Co-authored with John H. Edgette, Psy.D.
Invited Faculty/Guest Speaker
2019: The Thirteenth Erickson Congress, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life.
2016: The National Association of Basketball Coaches Convention, The Final Four, Houston, TX
Course Title: ZONEfulness: The Ultimate Guide for Student Athletes
2016: The Brief Therapy Conference, San Diego, CA.
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life
2015: The Twelfth Erickson Congress, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life.
2014 The Brief Therapy Conference, Anaheim, CA
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2012 The Brief Therapy Conference, San Francisco, CA
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2011 The Eleventh International Congress on Ericksonian, Pheonix, AZ
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2010 Brief Therapy Conference, Orlando, FL
Course Title: How to Become Smart Enough to Stop Thinking
2008 Brief Therapy Conference, San Diego, CA
Course Title: The Handbook of Habit Control – An Ericksonian Template
2007 The Tenth International Congress on Ericksonian, Pheonix, AZ
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2006 The 6th Brief Therapy Conference, Anaheim, CA
Course Title: How Do You Dismantle An Atomic What If?
2004 The Ninth International Congress on Ericksonian
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: Zone In: Ericksonian Sport Hypnosis
2001 PA Psychological Association (PPA) Bi-Annual Continuing
Education Conference, Exton, PA
Course Title: Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
