Josh Freker Psychotherapy

Personalized mental health treatment addressing anxiety, depression, and life challenges. Sessions focus on developing self-awareness and healthier coping mechanisms through psychodynamic approaches. Clients receive tailored support for navigating personal growth and healing from past traumas.

Specialized therapy for relationship challenges and communication issues. Utilizes relational frameworks to improve understanding between partners. Focuses on building healthier interaction patterns and addressing underlying emotional dynamics affecting relationships.

Secure virtual therapy sessions available for Pennsylvania residents. Provides accessible mental health support through HIPAA-compliant platforms. Maintains the same therapeutic quality and confidentiality as in-person sessions while offering greater flexibility.

Specialized care for trauma and dissociation using evidence-based approaches. Integrates advanced training in complex trauma treatment to help clients process difficult experiences. Focuses on creating safe therapeutic environments for healing and symptom management.

Long-term therapeutic approach exploring unconscious patterns and past experiences. Helps clients understand how early relationships shape current behaviors. Emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a tool for gaining insight and facilitating personal growth.

Philadelphia-based therapist with advanced training in relational psychoanalysis and complex trauma. Combines clinical expertise with advocacy experience to support clients through mental health challenges and personal growth.

I primarily use psychodynamic and relational approaches, focusing on how past experiences shape current patterns while building a therapeutic relationship to facilitate healing and self-understanding.

Yes, I provide secure online therapy sessions for Pennsylvania residents using HIPAA-compliant platforms while maintaining the same quality as in-person sessions.

Individual sessions cost $160 and couples sessions $180, with weekly 50-minute appointments. I provide invoices for insurance reimbursement but don't accept insurance directly.

I specialize in anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma, dissociation, and existential concerns, with advanced training in complex trauma treatment through ISSD certification.

I occasionally offer sliding scale spots based on financial need, though all current openings are currently filled as of January 2025.

I worked with Josh intensively for over a year and found him empathetic and willing to go above and beyond between sessions. However, we developed what turned out to be a very unhealthy relationship for me, where I became extremely overdependent on him, adding to my already dangerous self-destructive moods. After deciding to take a brief break from our intensive work, to my surprise I greatly improved, quickly reaching emotional stability for the first time since I began working with him.

When I returned to talk to him a few months after breaking off our therapy, he was not receptive to discussing my concerns about our unhealthy therapeutic dynamic. He was highly emotional and unwilling to analyze what had occurred between us. He seemed to have a lot of trouble controlling his feelings and acted like I had personally attacked him when I told him that I thought our therapy had not gone well.

Despite my initial high opinion of him, and based on his unprofessional behavior near the end of our work, I would not recommend Josh as a therapist, especially for anyone in an emotionally vulnerable space.

I worked with Josh intensively for over a year and found him empathetic and willing to go above and beyond between sessions. However, we developed what turned out to be a very unhealthy relationship for me, where I became extremely overdependent on him, adding to my already dangerous self-destructive moods. After deciding to take a brief break from our intensive work, to my surprise I greatly improved, quickly reaching emotional stability for the first time since I began working with him.

When I returned to talk to him a few months after breaking off our therapy, he was not receptive to discussing my concerns about our unhealthy therapeutic dynamic. He was highly emotional and unwilling to analyze what had occurred between us. He then ghosted me for over two months after I reached out to propose a final termination session. When I reached out again after this two-month lapse, he did not acknowledge or apologize for his avoidant behavior and refused to communicate further.

He seemed to have a lot of trouble controlling his feelings and acted like I had personally attacked him when I told him that I thought our therapy had not gone well, and that we'd both had huge blind spots about our unhealthy dynamic. Despite my initial high opinion of him, and based on his unprofessional behavior near the end of our work, I would not recommend Josh as a therapist, especially for anyone in an emotionally vulnerable space.

I worked with Josh intensively for over a year and found him empathetic and willing to go above and beyond between sessions. However, we developed what turned out to be a very unhealthy relationship for me, where I became extremely overdependent on him, adding to my already dangerous self-destructive moods. After deciding to take a brief break from our intensive work, to my surprise I greatly improved, quickly reaching emotional stability for the first time since I began working with him.

When I returned to talk to him a few months after breaking off our therapy, he was not receptive to discussing my concerns about our unhealthy therapeutic dynamic. He was highly emotional and unwilling to analyze what had occurred between us. He then ghosted me for over two months after I reached out to propose a final termination session. When I reached out again after this two-month lapse, he did not acknowledge or apologize for his avoidant behavior and refused to communicate further.

He seemed to have a lot of trouble controlling his feelings and acted like I had personally attacked him when I told him that I thought our therapy had not gone well, and that we'd both had huge blind spots about our unhealthy dynamic. Despite my initial high opinion of him, and based on his unprofessional behavior near the end of our work, I would not recommend Josh as a therapist, especially for anyone in an emotionally vulnerable space.

I worked with Josh intensively for over a year and found him empathetic and willing to go above and beyond between sessions. However, we developed what turned out to be a very unhealthy relationship for me, where I became extremely overdependent on him, adding to my already dangerous self-destructive moods. After deciding to take a brief break from our intensive work, to my surprise I greatly improved, quickly reaching emotional stability for the first time since I began working with him.

When I returned to talk to him a few months after breaking off our therapy, he was not receptive to discussing my concerns about our unhealthy therapeutic dynamic. He was highly emotional and unwilling to analyze what had occurred between us. He then ghosted me for over two months after I reached out to propose a final termination session. When I reached out again after this two-month lapse, he did not achnowledge or apologize for his avoidant behavior and refused to communicate further.

He seemed to have a lot of trouble controlling his feelings and acted like I had personally attacked him when I told him that I thought our therapy had not gone well, and that we'd both had huge blind spots about our unhealthy dynamic. Despite my initial high opinion of him, and based on his unprofessional behavior near the end of our work, I would not recommend Josh as a therapist, especially for anyone in an emotionally vulnerable space.