Meet Our Psychologists

Dr. Rosen Spector

A licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania with over thirty years experience, Dr. Rosen Spector has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups to provide psychotherapy for both short and long term problems. In addition, she has worked with both corporate and non-profit groups to define and manage organizational culture and help individual managers or departments improve their interpersonal skill sets.

Dr. Rosen Spector earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Summa Cum Laude, in 1985, having been a University Fellow for two years and a Teaching Fellow for three.

She has taught at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of West Virginia, Temple University, and, since, 1988, been an adjunct member of the faculty at Rutgers University – Camden. In addition, she was a developmental advisor there for ten years.

She has appeared on numerous local radio and television shows (including “Radio Times,” “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle,” “AM Philadelphia”) and has been a regular Op-Ed columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. She generally writes about the psychological complexities of modern life.

In 1977, she co-founded and was the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Adult Life, affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to psychotherapy, she helped design and present workshops and consulted with a large variety of organizations.

From 1981 to 1985, she was the Special Assistant to the Director at Women in Transition, one of the original Women’s Way organizations. In addition to providing psychological services to clients, she supervised other therapists.

She became a staff psychologist at the Counseling Program of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1985 and left three years later to enter private practice and to teach at the university level.

Dr. Perilstein

Joanne Perilstein, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who worked for fifteen years helping individuals with various physical and emotional disabilities choose educational programs and careers. Dr. Perilstein made a major career transition in her own life after she became totally blind in 2000. Having attended a rehabilitation program that taught her to use the white cane, clean, cook and operate an adaptive computer, she then began working entirely as a psychotherapist since she could no longer administer the psychological tests to evaluate clients needing vocational change.

Following a period of working in a group practice, she again opened a solo psychology practice and is a provider for several major insurance groups. She has developed a thriving practice that provides her with much meaningful activity. Since she has maintained her interest in helping people find satisfaction in their work and careers she decided to offer groups to inspire others to find similar satisfaction during difficult times.