About Dr. Wheeler

Welcome!


I want to honor the time, energy, and motivation it takes to seek therapy. This is not easy and is often intimidating or anxiety-provoking. I intend to help you experience therapy as a calm, safe, and supportive space in which you can focus on whatever it may be that encouraged you to seek help.

I have both volunteer and clinical experience in various mental health settings, including inpatient, outpatient, in-home, and mobile. I volunteered with a local hospice agency, offering respite and support to both patients and their families. I have volunteered as a co-facilitator of a grief-based support group and summer camp with a grief and bereavement center. At that time, I worked with pre-teens and young teenagers who had lost a parent or sibling. My master’s level internship took place in a substance use rehabilitation hospital, where I worked on the detoxification unit as well as a co-occurring unit for all women, where we treated both substance abuse and mental health conditions. My work as a mobile therapist took me into the homes of my minor clients, addressing and treating various mental health conditions within the entire family system. Most recently, I have worked as an outpatient therapist in a community health setting, treating depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, grief and loss, family and relationship conflict, substance use, PTSD and C-PTSD, among other conditions.

My therapeutic niche surrounds grief and loss from all angles: death and dying, anticipatory loss, ambiguous loss, and shadow loss. I also have personal, research, and clinical experience within adoptive
family systems and love to work with adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees.

I have experience working with individuals, couples, and families who are experiencing tension, conflict, and emotional struggles. I utilize a family systems approach while being an existential and psychodynamic thinker. I proudly tailor the therapeutic journey in whatever way my client needs.

I previously served as an adjunct professor in the psychology department at Manor College in Jenkintown, PA. Currently, I am an adjunct professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University in St. David’s, PA.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, and spoiling our senior dachshund mix, Perry. I also enjoy reading, watching scary movies, relaxing on my deck, drinking iced coffee, hosting family gatherings, and practicing my faith. You can also find me spending time with my identical twin sister in our “happy place” of Gettysburg, PA.

I look forward to hearing from you!