About Us

Anne Scaperoth, LISW-S

I completed my degree of a Masters in Social work from Ohio State University in 1981.  I have worked with children, adolescents, adults, and couples for the past 39 years using a blend of psychological trainings. My education includes 3 years training at the Gestalt Institute of Southern Ohio, 2 years of training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Harding Hospital, and 2 years of training in working with trauma and dissociative disorders at the Halterman Institute.  I also have training in psychodrama, hypnosis, object relations theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and energy psychology including Rieki, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and other energy healing modalities. I have also studied the Enneagram for many years and help people utilize it as a tool to understand their personality more deeply.  For a number of years, earlier in my private practice, I worked with young children using play therapy and art therapy.   Even though I no longer work with children, I continue to use my understanding of play therapy and early developmental theories in my work with adults. My goal is to enable clients to become self-aware and self-empowered through a therapeutic process.

For a number of years, I did trainings on issues of child sexual assault and adult trauma including sexual assault.  My trainings included working with individuals with dissociative identity disorders.  

Part of my training has been to do my own, ongoing personal therapeutic work.  The healing process and deeper understanding of myself has greatly enhanced my work and empathy with clients.  I have used traditional forms of therapy and nontraditional forms of healing in my process.  I believe that there are many ways for one to come to understand how our psyches operate and open up to a deeper process of our own true nature.

Hope Wilson, PCC, LICDC-S

Upon completion of my graduate degree from the University of Dayton in 2000, I became licensed in Professional Clinical Counseling (PCC).  I have been licensed in Chemical Dependency (LICDC) since 1991.  I have been trained in levels 1 and 2 of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).  I have also completed graduate training from the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio.  Along with EMDR and Gestalt therapy, I have had extensive training in play and art therapy, and hold a Bachelors Degree in Art Therapy from Capital University.

My work with clients involves working in the area of addictions for the past 34 years.  From 2001 to 2007, I worked with Gestalt Associates, a private psychotherapy practice in central Ohio.  I moved into my own private practice in 2007.  I have provided psychotherapy to adults, couples, children, and teens seeking help for trauma, grief/loss, depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, and marital conflict.  Prior to 2001, I developed and coordinated the You’re Extra Special (Y.E.S.) Program for the City of Columbus.  Y.E.S. was a program dedicated to children and families whose lives were affected by alcohol and other drug abuse and addiction.

For 20 years, I have provided training to professionals within the helping community on numerous aspects of various addictions and the effects of those addictions on the family (co-dependency/adult children of alcoholics), eating disorders, and the Art of Play, which focuses on therapy with children.

I appreciate the courage it takes to ask for help and to look at oneself.  My experience is that the journey is worth the risk.  I personally and professionally understand that risk, having become a psychotherapist after going on my own personal journey toward wholeness and presence.

Anne & Hope

Anne and Hope have both been studying the spiritual development of the essence or true nature of an individual.  They have joined that study with understanding the psychological constructs and structures within our psyches that block awareness of that essence or true nature.    They are dedicated to facilitating others’ deepening their understanding and growth of their spiritual self along with their sense of healthy humanness.  

For many years they have both been students of the Diamond approach with teacher, Sandra Maitri.   The Diamond Approach is a study of the spiritual essence of an individual and the psychological structures that block or constrict us from knowing that nature.  These teachings have provided both Anne and Hope with a deepened sense of their own essential nature and a deeper acceptance of their humanness.