Treating Individuals & Families Since 1985

Felice Block, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, understands what her trauma clients are experiencing as she spent seventeen years in an abusive marriage.

“I was married to an emotionally, verbally, spiritually, and financially abusive man,” she said, “It took ten years of therapy to get to the point that I was strong enough to leave.”

Since then, Felice changed careers, remarried, and discovered a trauma therapy she utilizes not only to help her clients but also teaches other therapists to do the same.

Felice began her career as a special education teacher focused on students with emotional problems. She particularly enjoyed working one-on-one with the most challenging children which led her to a graduate degree in counseling from Adler Institute, now Adler University. She wrote her thesis while on bedrest during her pregnancy with twins, and shortly after her children were born, she opened her own private practice.

At the same time, her marriage deteriorated, and Felice recognized change was essential. “My daughter was pigeon toed and needed really good shoes. He didn’t want to give me the money for those shoes, and that’s when I realized I needed to empower myself and find a full-time job,” she said.

She became the Executive Director of Warren Township Youth Services and later served as the Director of Response, a JCFS agency that provides counseling and support for adolescents.

After returning to private practice in the early 2000s, Felice learned about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a highly effective and efficient method to help people overcome the lingering effects of trauma, and became a certified EMDR therapist.

“EMDR is the gold standard of treatment for trauma,” she said, “It also works for depression, anxiety and many other mental health issues.”

In addition to treating trauma clients, Felice is an EMDRIA approved consultant and CEU sponsor providing consulting and coaching to other therapists working toward EMDR certification.