About the Therapist

Louise Del Maestro, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a Spiritual Pathwork Counselor. She is in a healing profession because she feels called to serve individuals and family's who are having difficulties communicating, maintaining or attaining intimacy and positive connections. Her therapeutic work enhances awareness of emotional cues and miscues, furthering understanding of the old familiar patterns that have been created, so they can be chosen anew.

Relationships are enhanced as trust grows. Clients are given assurance and tools to express their needs responsibly, opening the door to positive life changes. By being present to the client and what they are unraveling for understanding, Louise's intuition, her professional training and her own personal spiritual-therapeutic work inform the process. (Louise has been on a conscious spiritual quest for enlightenment for about fifteen years, indulging herself in the Pathwork of Self-Transformation and now as a student of Adyashanti.) How she can serve you and your family and for how long is based on your intention, commitment and openness to seeking a different avenue.

"There is a hole in the street. I walk down the street. I don't see the hole and fall in."

"There is a hole in the street. I walk down the street. I see the hole, and fall in anyway."

"There is a hole in the street. I walk down the street. I see the hole, and walk around it."

"There is a hole in the street. I walk down another street."

~ Unknown

Resume

Louise Del Maestro, MSW, LCSW

703 256 0007 DelMaestro@verizon.net

Education:

2002 - 2004

Catholic University of America, Washington DC 20064

Master's of Social Work 3.6 GPA / 2007 - LCSW -- VA #0904006616

1975 - 1977

William Paterson College, Passaic County, NJ

B.A. - Early Childhood Education and Special Education Certification 3.6 GPA

1972 - 1974

Jersey City State College, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Work experience:

2007 - present	Open Heart Counseling Services Corporation, Annandale, VA 22003 Self-employed psychotherapist in private practice - Specializing in issues of childhood/adolescence. Parent/child work primarily. Family sessions / individual sessions / Intensives / In Home
2003 - 2007	Adoption, Attachment, Partners, Burke, VA 22015 Internship to Therapist - Averaged sixteen hours per week seeing clients primarily with Reactive Attachment Disorder. Responsible for clinical psychotherapy with child/parent dyad/tryad, led groups, led three day Intensives for families.
1979 - 1989	TOYS R US, Saddle Brook, NJ Middle Management Louise taught merchandizing, operational skills, and subsequently management and motivational skills to managers. She was responsible for upwards of 2,000 employees in five stores.
1977 - 1979	A. R. E. B. A., Mt. Freedom, NJ / Daniel Casriel, M.D. - owner High School Special Education Teacher - Teacher of what was then termed the Emotionally and Socially Maladjusted population, responsibilities were to teach English, Geometry, Sewing, and Swimming to children residentially placed in this facility.

Spiritual Experience:

2003 - 2008

Counselor/Helper Training / Pathwork, Madison, Va. / Apprentice Helper

Completed this five year course certifying one to teach the Pathwork® Lectures and become an Apprentice Helper serving "workers" in a spiritual therapeutic practice. Assisted in a Transformation Program weekend group 2007/2008. (pathwork.org)

1997 - 2002

The Pathwork of Self-Transformation Program, Madison, VA/Philadelphia, PA/ Certificate(s) of Completion

Completed this curriculum oriented to the pursuit of greater self-awareness, self-love and self-acceptance through the transformation of negative distortions or the shadow side. Involves deep psychological process work, intention and commitment to look within to raise one's level of consciousness, and a meditation practice.

2008 - present

Study began with Adyashanti, an enlightened human being. (Adyashanti.org)

References:

Susan Thesenga	Susan Thesenga authored "The Undefended Self" and began with her husband Donovan, the Sevenoaks Pathwork Center of Virginia or the Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. Although retired as leader, she currently maintains a spiritual therapeutic practice in Madison, VA.
Ms. Julie Dobson	Julie Dobson was Chief Operating Officer of TeleCorp PCS, a wireless system operator in the Midwest and Puerto Rico, from 1998 until AT&T Wireless purchased the company in 2002 for more than $5B when she retired. She currently holds four board positions of major corporations.
Mary C. Owen, LCSW	Mary Owen is former owner of Adoption, Attachment, Partners, and is now owner and psychotherapist of "R" Place in Springfield, VA.