Dr. John Joseph Gualtieri, PHD

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Dr. Gualtieri is an excellent therapist. I found him very understanding and helpful. I recommend him highly.

One has to be very disheartened to log-online, give a one-star rating to a psychologist and write this review. My spouse and I sought marriage counseling to get through a difficult and challenging time. We ended up in the “care” of Dr. John Gualtieri for many months. Contrary to our previous positive experience with other counselors (I always felt getting a periodic positive boost through counseling for our marriage was a healthy way of maintaining a healthy relationship), the results were just awful, and his clinical work only helped move us towards divorce. John gives no advice on “how-to” improve one’s relationship, is inconsistent with what he says, fosters taking “sides” on issues, is evasive when asked questions, often seems disengaged and otherwise pre-occupied, and his counseling had a negative impact on our marriage in every regard. I can say with total integrity and honesty that if you are considering John for marriage counseling, seek another professional, unless you are “looking” to get divorced, in which case, he is your man! I sincerely hope I can help others avoid the pain and negative results we experienced. My advice to John is to think carefully about whether or not you are in the “right place” to be counseling married couples – either get a professional make-over or hang it up. A friend of mine in your profession is floored that after so many months, we are where we are and recommended we immediately stop going to you and seek another professional before it’s too late.