Denise Tervo, PhD

for Children, Adolescents, Adults

412-661-5015

Denise Tervo PhD. is a licensed psychologist, supervisor

and trainer in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

She has provided counseling to adults, adolescents, children

and families for over thirty years.

Areas focused on include:

Individual or Family Psychotherapy

Depression/Anxiety

Self-Esteem

Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

Trauma/Abuse

Women’s Issues

Play Therapy with young children

Child Management, Consultation - i.e. Issues of Development, Divorce, Loss, or Socialization (problems with peers)

Gestalt Therapist/Body Oriented Energy Work

Denise integrates body process and energy awareness in her clinical practice. Her work emphasizes growth, health, flexibility and personal empowerment.

Insurance: Magellan, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Denise has led women’s awareness groups and workshops at Heartsong Interfaith Retreats in North Carolina and in Pittsburgh. In the fall of 2010, Denise and Dr Michele Bertini will lead another group for Women in Mid-Life Transitions in Pittsburgh. Please click for more information.

Denise is also active providing clinical supervision in various settings, and teaching locally and internationally. She has taught at the Esalen Institute in California, as well as in Malta and Israel.

She is a faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Pittsburgh and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. At Cleveland she has taught in the following programs: Working with Physical Process, Child and Adolescent, and the Gestalt Therapy  Program.

Denise is a part time instructor at Duquesne University in the Counselor Education and Supervision program. She has taught graduate level courses on: group counseling, supervision, child psychotherapy and play therapy.

Her publications include:

"Physical Process with Children and Adolescents" in The Heart of Development (Vol 1: Childhood) edited by M. McConville and G. Wheeler.(2002)

"Zig Zag Flop and Roll: Creating an Embodied Field for Healing and Awareness when Working with Children," British Gestalt Journal (2007)

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