Joe served as the Philadelphia Eagles mental strength clinician from 2019-2021. He currently is a mental health, peak performance professional working the Eagles players and coaches. Since 2015, Joe has been the peak performance/mental health training coach for the University of Pennsylvania men’s and women’s basketball program. Joe also works with the PENN women’s lacrosse team and men’s soccer team.
Joe has served as the peak performance/mental health clinician for the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team since 2021. The Scarlet Knights completed their best season in school history in the spring of 2022, finishing #10 in the national rankings, playing in the Big 10 Championship game, and winning an NCAA Tournament game.
Joe has worked extensively with athletes on the high school, collegiate, and professional levels for 20 years. He is a specialist in sport and performance psychology who guides clients via specialized zone exercises to create and maintain peak performance. He emphasizes the unique strengths of each individual while magnifying their personal history of success and their future memories of success.
Joe facilitates sport psychology and team building workshops for teams in the Philadelphia area as well as throughout the country. He has designed and implemented programs for student-athletes at Cornell University, Boston College, LaSalle College High School, and The Agnes Irwin School, to name a few of his clients.
Joe is a licensed professional counselor who conducts his private psychology practice in Philadelphia, PA. Working with individuals, couples, and families, Joe can be best characterized as a peak performance, strength based, future focused practitioner who facilitates therapy as an experiential process. He specializes in solution-focused/strategic therapy while having an expertise in clinical and medical hypnotherapy.
Joe practices a state of the art approach to the treatment of anxiety. Clients are taught via mindfulness, hypnotic zone experience, and strategic task assignments. Joe also specializes in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, pain management, and habit control for weight management and smoking cessation.
Joe has worked as a corporate consultant, facilitating peak performance seminars for professionals in the pharmaceutical, advertising, and human services industries. He has been an invited speaker to numerous national and international conferences. He has also published articles in national and international professional journals (see below).
He worked as a clinician and the director of training for The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia from 2000-2009. He currently sees clients out of his home office in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife, Lisa.
Education
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, Villanova, PA
Master of Science, Counseling Psychology, 1992
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, Reading, PA
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, 1987
Licensure & Certification
Awarded Licensure as a Professional Counselor (LPC), The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March, 2002
Professional Publications
An Ericksonian Template for Smoking Cessation
The Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis,
Volume 30 Number 2.
Book Review, The Handbook of Ericksonian Psychotherapy
The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Volume 45, #2
Co-authored with John H. Edgette, Psy.D.
TOWARD A NEW SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Newsletter, Vol. 43, #3
Co-authored with John H. Edgette, Psy.D.
Invited Faculty/Guest Speaker
2019: The Thirteenth Erickson Congress, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life.
2016: The National Association of Basketball Coaches Convention, The Final Four, Houston, TX
Course Title: ZONEfulness: The Ultimate Guide for Student Athletes
2016: The Brief Therapy Conference, San Diego, CA.
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life
2015: The Twelfth Erickson Congress, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: ZONEfulness: An Ericksonian Approach to Peak Performance in the Game of Life.
2014 The Brief Therapy Conference, Anaheim, CA
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2012 The Brief Therapy Conference, San Francisco, CA
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2011 The Eleventh International Ericksonian Congress, Pheonix, AZ
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2010 Brief Therapy Conference, Orlando, FL
Course Title: How to Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2008 Brief Therapy Conference, San Diego, CA
Course Title: The Handbook of Habit Control – An Ericksonian Template
2007 The Tenth International Ericksonian Congress, Pheonix, AZ
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Course Title: How To Become Smart Enough to Know When To Stop Thinking
2006 The Sixth Brief Therapy Conference, Anaheim, CA
Course Title: How Do You Dismantle An Atomic What If?
2004 The Ninth International Ericksonian Congress
Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ
Course Title: Zone In: Ericksonian Sport Hypnosis
2001 PA Psychological Association (PPA) Bi-Annual Continuing
Education Conference, Exton, PA
Course Title: Brief Solution-Focused Therapy