Judith Gusky, Counseling Services
Judith Gusky helps clients with the extreme emotions that accompany grief and loss. She works with you at your own pace to establish a sense of balance, find new meaning, and re-integrate with life.
Judith specializes in working with clients who face mental health challenges while dealing with life-altering issues, including loss and grief, aging, end-of-life counseling, cancer diagnosis and treatment, counseling for caregivers, and more. In addition, she works with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. Home visits available; free phone consultations.
Loss and Grief Through the Lifecycle
The life cycle is full of joy and accomplishment--birth, first steps, school, graduations, work, marriage, raising a family, retirement.
Or so we believe it should be.
What happens when loss and grief interrupt the natural flow of life? When family, friends, or significant people in our lives die?
Life's assumptions and expectations suddenly dissolve. What was meaningful yesterday, is a painful emptiness today. Life is turned upside down, unanchored, out of balance. Anger, denial, deep sadness, regret, guilt, even depression and anxiety can overwhelm and keep us stuck, with no relief in sight.
Often, we can feel like an outsider in our own homes, our workplaces, our religious congregations, among friends, neighbors, and just about anywhere.
About Judith Gusky
Judith Gusky received her MSEd in professional counseling from Youngstown Sate University. She is working toward licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania.
Judith came to counseling as a mid-life career change. She worked for a number of years in the field of historic preservation and history education, and later in the area of corporate training.
Judith completed a doctoral degree in history at Carnegie-Mellon University. It was as a result of that work that Judith realized how deeply her life had been affected by loss and grief from an early age. The outcome of her doctoral work was publication of a book by Syracuse University Press entitled, "Mother Donit Fore the Best": Letters of a 19th-Century Orphan Asylum (1996).
Starting in 2004, Judith pursued the education, training, and credentials necessary for professional mental health counseling. She now specializes in grief and loss and also mental health issues confronting the elderly, the chronically and terminally ill, their families, friends, and caregivers. Her interests extend also to counseling women diagnosed with breast cancer, couples experiencing a late-term pregnancy loss, and adults who have experienced the loss of a parent as a child.
For more information, please contact:
Judith Gusky, Counseling Services
5829 Ellsworth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-450-8011
Email: Judith Gusky
Website: www.judithssite.com