About David Wingert, MAMFT, JD

I became a therapist after more than 25 years in the legal profession, where I daily witnessed the tragic consequences of addiction, family conflict, and unaddressed trauma. Convinced there was a different purpose for my life than pushing broken people through an impersonal system that never got to lasting solutions for those outward symptoms of a breakdown in shalom, I went back to school to become a therapist. In 2019, I founded Shalom Therapy Services to help hurting people find real restoration to wholeness.

Originally from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, I married my wife, Kathy (Gardner) Wingert, in 1988 and have since called Lebanon County home for more than three decades. Kathy and I are the parents of two adult children, Daniel and Katie, as well as a mischievous but lovable golden retriever, Henry.

My Mission

At Shalom Therapy Services, I want all of my clients to know this truth:

You were made to be whole, not broken. You were made to embrace life as the full, authentic YOU, not to shrink or hide on the edges of life looking in.

My practice offers a place of trust and understanding, where past hurts are first acknowledged and addressed. But the end goal of therapy is not to stay in that place of darkness. The ultimate mission of therapy is to move forward towards wholeness, towards shalom.

How do we move forward? We do it together, by equipping you to discover your deep longings in life, to notice when you feel most alive.

Utilizing those discoveries, I partner with you to realign your sense of authentic self, so you can move past the crippling distortions created by damaging past experience to the freeing truth of who you were created to be–a worthy, unique individual designed for loving and healthy relationships.

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Professional Education, Associations, and Certifications

BA, English and Philosophy, Dickinson College (1985)

JD, Dickinson School of Law (1989)

MAMFT, Evangelical Seminary (2019)

PREPARE/ENRICH Marital and Premarital Counseling (2017)

Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level One (2017), Level Two (2019)

EMI™ – Eye Movement Integration (2019)

Associations:

AAMFT, PAMFT

Pre-Licensed Professional

Supervisor: Dr. Robb Palmer, Pennsylvania/MF000485

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