Our History
The Brookhaven Center was founded in 1987 by Lowell and Marie Hoffman. From its humble beginnings in a loft at the Hoffman’s rustic country farm, to the present, The Brookhaven Center has been a place dedicated to restoring broken relationships, transforming lives, and training psychologists and mental health professionals.
Our Setting
The Brookhaven Center is located in a rural country setting one mile north of Fogelsville. Our secluded, yet easily accessible location, provides a respite to current clients and patients of The Brookhaven Center.
Our Ethos
We believe every person has intrinsic worth and value and thus deserves to be related to with the utmost respect.
We believe that personal relationships are the ground of human being and the nexus of lasting meaning and fulfillment. We believe that mental disorders and emotional problems are multiply determined. Utilizing our experience and training, we focus on those problems which were and are precipitated by the vicissitudes and failures in the significant relationships of our patients and the trauma and tragedies in their lives. We coordinate and partner with physicians, allied health professionals and clergy when appropriate with the consent of each patient. We welcome the privilege (when granted) of integrating a person’s faith into our therapeutic relationship.
We believe that knowing ourselves is essential to our commitment to helping others. The pursuit of such knowledge for us includes advanced studies in psychodynamic therapy and other recent developments in psychology, intensive personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and ongoing supervision. We believe in accountability and collegiality and are members of the following professional organizations:
We believe that personal relationships are the ground of human being and the nexus of lasting meaning and fulfillment. We believe that mental disorders and emotional problems are multiply determined. Utilizing our experience and training, we focus on those problems which were and are precipitated by the vicissitudes and failures in the significant relationships of our patients and the trauma and tragedies in their lives. We coordinate and partner with physicians, allied health professionals and clergy when appropriate with the consent of each patient. We welcome the privilege (when granted) of integrating a person’s faith into our therapeutic relationship.
We believe that knowing ourselves is essential to our commitment to helping others. The pursuit of such knowledge for us includes advanced studies in psychodynamic therapy and other recent developments in psychology, intensive personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and ongoing supervision. We believe in accountability and collegiality and are members of the following professional organizations:
- American Psychological Association
- Pennsylvania Psychological Association
- Christian Association for Psychological Studies
- Society for the Exploration of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies and Theology