Psychotherapists
TCP is committed to maintaining diversity of experience and identities in our staff across clinical orientations as well as race, age, class, gender identity, culture, immigration status, and sexual orientation.
Our psychotherapists are deeply committed to the work and mission of TCP. We approach the therapy work with the understanding that how we experience our lives is influenced and shaped by our multiple identities and social locations (race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc.).
Using a collaborative therapeutic relationship, our therapists can offer you a counseling experience that is safe, healing, and transforming of your life.
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Varney Glassman, LSWPsychotherapist
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Kathleen Ross, LCSWPsychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor
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Samantha Rucker, MA, NCC, LPC CandidatePsychotherapist
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Jacob Glickman, MA, LPCDoctoral Intern
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Katherine Schwab, LSWPsychotherapist
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Forogh Rahim, MA, MFTPsychotherapist
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Patria Alvelo, PsyDPsychotherapist
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Kimberly Ashby, MAPsychotherapist
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Kay Cohen, LCSW, MEdPsychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor
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Siam Job, MS, LPC CandidatePsychotherapist
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Jessara Bowenschulte, PsyD, MFTPsychotherapist
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Xihlovo Mabunda, MS, NCCPsychotherapist
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Ellie Taylor, LSWPsychotherapist, Intern Field Instructor
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Harim Jung, MSWPsychotherapist

Varney Glassman, LSW
Varney's Bio
Varney is a white, queer, ciswoman and uses she/her pronouns. Varney sees the therapeutic relationship as a space to begin healing and seeks to foster a collaborative, affirming and gently challenging environment. Varney’s approach to therapy is client-centered, trauma-informed, and relational. She draws from psychodynamic, feminist, and attachment theories. Varney recognizes how systems of oppression affect our lives in conscious and unconscious ways and seeks to incorporate a social justice lens to all her work.
Varney is interested in working with clients to identify and process past experiences that may be affecting their lives in the present. She also strives to help clients recognize and reflect on how current relationships and patterns of behavior are playing out in their lives. She is particularly interested in identity formation, life transitions, relationship issues, and family systems. Varney believes that clients are the experts on their own experiences and seeks to support clients in forming their own narratives.

Kathleen Ross, LCSW
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Samantha Rucker, MA, NCC, LPC Candidate
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Jacob Glickman, MA, LPC
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Katherine Schwab, LSW
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Kate is interested in helping clients think about how past experiences and relationships may be affecting their lives today, and supporting clients to shift patterns that no longer serve them. Her clinical practice is informed by a range of modalities, primarily pulling from psychodynamic, feminist, relational, attachment, and trauma theories. She works to bring a somatic approach to her practice, meaning she is conscious of the mind/body connection and can help clients build internal awareness around that relationship, especially in relation to trauma. Many of us have complicated relationships to our bodies, or may feel disconnected from our bodies, and Kate is interested in exploring that relationship and working towards healing.
In addition to her work at The Therapy Center of Philadelphia, Kate also works for an intervention, treatment, training and education program working to stop harmful behavior and intimate partner violence.

Forogh Rahim, MA, MFT
Forogh's Bio
Forogh Rahim is an Afghan refugee and a queer identified Muslim woman. Forogh immigrated to the U.S. with her family as an adolescent and lived in California before relocating to Philadelphia for her studies. Forogh is currently a 3rd year doctoral candidate in Drexel University’s Couple and Family Therapy program. She joined TCP in February of 2019 to complete a clinical internship.
Forogh completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis, where she majored in Biopsychology. She earned her master’s degree from Palo Alto University in Marriage and Family Therapy. Forogh has 4+ years of clinical experience working individuals of all ages and families. In her work, Forogh has focused on serving ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged families and communities.
Forogh draws from her own experiences of being marginalized and from her education to understand the intersection between living on the margins and mental/relational health. She utilizes this understanding between social marginalization and health to build strong therapeutic relationships with her clients and implement a holistic framework to understand client concerns.

Patria Alvelo, PsyD
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Kimberly Ashby, MA
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Kay Cohen, LCSW, MEd
Kay's Bio
My name is Kay and I am a white, trans, queer, licensed clinical social worker who is interested in the ways that authentic connection, collaboration, and accountability bring us closer to ourselves and each other and strengthen our communities. My approach to therapy is rooted in an ethic of social justice that emphasizes your right to claim and embody your purpose within a life that resonates with your definition of personal, social, and political empowerment. In our work together, my goal is to support you in moving through the world in whatever body, self, and community feel like home, in your ability to endure and resist the forces of power and oppression in society, and in your right to be safe. Whether it’s your aim to manage anxiety and stress, build a healthier relationship with your body and self, engage in healing around traumatic experiences, or develop more rewarding relationships, I provide a non-judgmental space in which we’ll work together to explore those things that feel hardest to manage alone.
I use a variety of therapeutic modalities, including relational, narrative, and feminist theories. In addition, I am trained in and excited about engaging EMDR and Somatic Experiencing as alternative ways to connect with, process, and heal from trauma using the inherent wisdom carried within our bodies.

Siam Job, MS, LPC Candidate
Siam's Bio
Siam is a black, queer, non-binary, AFAB immigrant. Acknowledging both class and socioeconomic privileges held, Siam navigates spaces with openness, humor, and empathy, seeking always to understand others with grace and an appreciation of their autonomy. People often operate within and can sometimes be constrained by their social locations. Siam works with clients wherever they might currently be, helping them to create safe spaces to feel free to live, love, and breathe.
Siam graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with a Masters in Mental Health Counselling, and is trained in cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy (CBT). Siam incorporates these CBT approaches into a narrative therapy framework to help clients question unhelpful and inaccurate stories perpetuated across their lives. This approach supports clients in rewriting and rehearsing narratives that paint a more accurate, less hurtful picture of their existence. Guided by strengths-based and existential philosophies, Siam works alongside clients to build their self-love, self-efficacy, and distress tolerance as they create meaning of their life events.

Jessara Bowenschulte, PsyD, MFT
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Xihlovo Mabunda, MS, NCC
Xihlovo's Bio

Ellie Taylor, LSW
Ellie's Bio

Harim Jung, MSW
Harim's Bio
Leadership Team
All clinical supervisors are licensed and have extensive clinical experience and advanced training. They work as a team to oversee all clinical work that occurs at TCP and support the executive director around policy and programming decisions.
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Deborah Seagull, PhD, LCSWClinical Supervisor
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Michelle Matthews, MSIntake Coordinator
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Erin O’Brien, MA, LPCClinical Supervisor
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Kathleen Ross, LCSWPsychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor
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Ellie Taylor, LSWPsychotherapist, Intern Field Instructor
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Chris TempletonOperations Manager
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Marquita Bolden, LCSWExecutive Director
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Kay Cohen, LCSW, MEdPsychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

Deborah Seagull, PhD, LCSW
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Michelle Matthews, MS
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Michelle is a white, queer, non-binary therapist that holds a Master’s degree in Community & Trauma Counseling. As the Intake Coordinator at TCP, they believe that therapy can be a vital space for growth and healing, and value building a relationship based on acceptance, trust and empathetic understanding. They provide trauma-informed care where individuals feel safe, heard, valued and empowered to make the changes they desire, as they believe you are the expert in your own life. Their work is centered in anti-racism, social justice and harm reduction, and offers space to those who hold marginalized identities – queer or trans*, non-monogamous or poly relationships, sex workers, and kink/bdsm relationships.
Outside of their role at TCP, they work in gender and sexuality research, manage a group practice, and maintain their own private practice of clients in West Philly. When they’re not working they can almost always be found outside with their dog and a book.

Erin O’Brien, MA, LPC
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Kathleen Ross, LCSW
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Ellie Taylor, LSW
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Chris Templeton
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Marquita Bolden, LCSW
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Kay Cohen, LCSW, MEd
Kay's Bio
My name is Kay and I am a white, trans, queer, licensed clinical social worker who is interested in the ways that authentic connection, collaboration, and accountability bring us closer to ourselves and each other and strengthen our communities. My approach to therapy is rooted in an ethic of social justice that emphasizes your right to claim and embody your purpose within a life that resonates with your definition of personal, social, and political empowerment. In our work together, my goal is to support you in moving through the world in whatever body, self, and community feel like home, in your ability to endure and resist the forces of power and oppression in society, and in your right to be safe. Whether it’s your aim to manage anxiety and stress, build a healthier relationship with your body and self, engage in healing around traumatic experiences, or develop more rewarding relationships, I provide a non-judgmental space in which we’ll work together to explore those things that feel hardest to manage alone.
I use a variety of therapeutic modalities, including relational, narrative, and feminist theories. In addition, I am trained in and excited about engaging EMDR and Somatic Experiencing as alternative ways to connect with, process, and heal from trauma using the inherent wisdom carried within our bodies.
The members of the Board of Directors of the Therapy Center of Philadelphia serve on a volunteer basis.
The Board is representative of a cross-section of successful professionals from the Philadelphia area and TCP benefits from the diverse backgrounds of the Board members. All serve out of recognition of the importance of the TCP mission to the community.
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Eric Lu, MBATreasurer
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Jennifer Dumin, Esq.Secretary
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Kaleb AronsonBoard Member
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Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSWCompliance Officer
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Jaymie Campbell, MD, MEdPresident
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Ariele LeGrand, LSWBoard Member
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Rida HaqBoard Member
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Marquita Bolden, LCSWExecutive Director
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Elaine Dutton, MSWVice President

Eric Lu, MBA
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Jennifer Dumin, Esq.
Jennifer's Bio
Jennifer is a member of The Nicholas Cipriani American Inn of Court and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, where she serves as Co-Chair of The Legal Rights of Contemporary Families Committee. She serves on the Board of the Therapy Center of Philadelphia as Secretary. Jennifer has received recognition as a Rising Star by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers since 2016 and as a Best Lawyer in America for family law by Best Lawyers since 2018.

Kaleb Aronson
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Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW
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Throughout her career, Laura has been engaged in practicing with diverse populations, providing both general therapeutic and trauma-specific services for children and adolescents, members of the LGBT community, for grieving parents who have lost their infants, and individuals facing homelessness. Ms. Hinds has taught at The University of Pennsylvania at the graduate School of Social Policy and Practice since 2007. Laura has also authored and curated Bryn Mawr’s School of Social Work and Social Policy’s Post-Graduate Trauma Certificate. She is the Pipal Partner of Hindsigh Consulting Group, LLS – a company she founded in 2013 to support the learning and development needs of social service organizations.

Jaymie Campbell, MD, MEd
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Ariele LeGrand, LSW
Ariele's Bio
Ariele Le Grand is an educator, writer and psychotherapist with a depth of experience in community engagement, facilitation and program development. She joined the TCP board in September of 2019. She was previously a TCP staff therapist. Ms. Le Grand recently worked with the Policing Project at NYU Law School on reforming policing policy and developing trauma informed models of community engagement. Prior to the Policing Project, Ms. Le Grand worked at the Clinton Foundation, where she coached university leadership teams on strategic planning and managed a national program to promote behavioral health and opioid abuse prevention on college campuses and surrounding communities. She is a past fellow of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, where she worked under former US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, and partnered with local organizations to build their capacity around sexual health programming.
Ms. Le Grand is an alumna of Spelman College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She holds Master’s degrees in Social Anthropology and Social Work from the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania respectively. She is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction and teaching creative writing at Temple University.

Rida Haq
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Rida’s amazing bio is coming soon!

Marquita Bolden, LCSW
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Elaine Dutton, MSW
Elaine's Bio
Elaine Dutton (they/them/she/her) is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in Philadelphia, PA. They are a white able bodied US citizen with southern roots situated in the middle class. Elaine is gender non-conforming, non-binary, and queer. She has served on the Board of Directors at TCP since March 2018. Elaine’s approach to clinical practice is informed by relational, narrative, attachment, feminist, and psychodynamic theoretical frameworks. Elaine practices from a social justice oriented and anti-racist framework, while understanding that de-centering whiteness and undoing white supremacy is a life-long process. They work primarily with individuals and couples, along with adolescents and their caretakers.
Prior to graduate school, Elaine worked in the field of sexual violence prevention as a crisis intervention counselor, educator, and community organizer. They moved to Philadelphia in September 2011 after receiving an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. Elaine began her career at Mazzoni Center where she worked to develop the Gender Affirming Services program, the only program at the agency exclusively serving transgender individuals. Elaine was the sole social worker in this program prior to becoming Manager in 2015. Under their leadership, the number of staff on this team grew from one to five, the P.A.C.T.S. ‘Pediatric & Adolescent Comprehensive Transgender Services’ program was created, and an MSW intern training program was established.
Elaine’s relationship with Therapy Center of Philadelphia began in 2013 when she was hired as a Staff Therapist. They have since been practicing as a psychotherapist for six years, two of those years being at Therapy Center of Philadelphia and the remaining in private practice. They view psychotherapy as a collaborative experience between therapist and patient and practice from a diverse perspective that allows for flexibility based on individual need. Elaine has considerable experience working with people who identify as transgender, non-binary, gender nonconforming, LGBQ, asexual, etc. She has worked with folk who are in non-traditional, polyamorous, and non-monogamous relationships, and with those who engage in kink/BDSM practices. Elaine has particular interest in trauma, identity discernment and development, and relationship concerns.
Elaine is a parent to a precious tiny human, a kitty and a pup, and is a dedicated community member. They also thoroughly enjoy spending time with the ocean, at queer dance parties, and cooking casseroles.