Mental Health Therapy serving Pennsylvania through Online Counseling or In-Person services in Pittsburgh and Indiana, PA
Neurodivergent- Affirming Mental Health Care
Reproductive Mental Health Care
Queer-Affirming Mental Health Care
Forward Wellness aims to support all people and their families to live authentic and abundant lives. We strive to reduce barriers to accessing mental health care through specialized support, provider education and care coordination.
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Our clinical work and organizational culture are led by our shared values
We believe that our pain and growth are bound up with one another’s; that reflection, candor, and authenticity are vital practices; that our identities must be framed in trauma-informed historical and cultural contexts; and that we can commit to doing what matters together, alongside the suffering, via compassionate care and connection.
We don’t think it’s radical to support all kinds of families, to celebrate folks unconditionally, to share authentically in our human suffering, and to call many parts of our culture unhealthy for our minds and communities.
This is what we believe. This is our commitment to ourselves and our community.
At Forward Wellness we believe…
Care + connection are vital
Belonging, support, and interdependence are hardwired in us – we thrive when we feel loved.
Outside of our diagnosis, our suffering results from ‘normative’ societal systems
We also know that these systems impact intersecting, oppressed identities the most. When we meet with clients, we must understand their and their families' identities, contexts, and histories to understand their experience better.
We can do it differently, centering humanity + healing
We want to center good work, healing, progress, and collaboration, not profit, the bottom line, and the status quo.
We can do what matters alongside pain
Expecting the absence of hard stuff is not a reality. Our ability to choose growth, connection, and healing despite suffering is psychological health.
Join Our Team
We are always on the lookout for passionate and driven clinicians to better serve our community. With more and more people reaching out for support, we aim to ensure we have the right team members ready to provide care!
Meet Our 2026 Interns!
Gretchen Bateman (she/her)
My journey to becoming a therapist later in life brings a broad range of experiences to my practice - I recognize that each client's path is rarely simple or straightforward.
I am especially interested in working with neurodivergent clients and clients experiencing job-related stress/burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, grief, PTSD, major life transitions, or relationship issues. I also welcome clients who are still trying to understand their experiences - we can unpack and make sense of them together.
Colleen Kilbane
I am a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in clinical Mental Health Counseling at Carlow University. My journey to becoming a counselor is filled with various career and life experiences that inform my approach to creating the therapeutic space for clients to heal intentionally and grow freely. My experience as a lifelong learner of culture provides space for exploration and introspection of identity to be included in the therapeutic process. I will invite clients to reauthor their personal narratives and identify their strengths and resiliency along the way. I have interests in inner child work and offer the process of revisiting foundational narratives. I work well with clients who want to explore somatic processing and grounding techniques to facilitate wholistic healing. As a naturally inquisitive individual and new clinician I am attuned to integrate client lead interventions and interests into my practice to meet each client where they are in their unique journey.