Family Health and Wellness Services
Welcome to Family Health & Wellness Services in Summit, NJ – a trusted group practice for over 20 years dedicated to supporting adolescents, adults, and families through life’s challenges. We help clients build emotional resilience, foster healthier relationships, and achieve their personal goals. As specialists in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), we offer an evidence-based approach that combines mindfulness with practical skills in emotion regulation, stress management, and interpersonal effectiveness. Our mission is simple: to empower you—or your loved one—to create a life worth living.
Rachel Gingold, PhD
Dr. Gingold is a New Jersey, New York, and Interjurisdictionally Telepsychology (APIT) licensed psychologist who received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yeshiva University in 2003. Her career has always focused on the transition from adolescence to young adulthood and is passionate specifically around how developmental milestones are shaped by changes in societal norms.
Dr. Gingold’s graduate work began with a master’s degree in counseling psychology in Boston at Northeastern University. It was during that time that she was trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) at the Women’s Treatment Program at McLean Hospital. She then completed a two-year marriage and family therapy residency program at Harvard Medical School and Blanton-Peale Counseling Center. While moving from Boston to New York, she also shifted her focus from clinical work to research. Dr. Gingold coordinated a large five-year research project studying changes in adolescent relationships over time, and how those changes impact identity development at New York University.
She published in the Journal of Social Issues and in the New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. She later went on to teach and work in administrative positions in New Jersey before opening Family Health and Wellness Services in 2005. Dr. Gingold has also become an Advanced Grief Recovery Method (GRM) Specialist due to her own personal experiences with relationship losses that came out of her divorce. Dr. Gingold found the GRM an instrumental complement to DBT because of its evidence-based treatment protocols which teach specific skills/ tools to remediate unprocessed emotional pain which came out of undelivered communications.
Dr. Gingold has joined working with the Center for the Heart (C4TH) to help families with end-of-life support for families of their loved one. Dr. Gingold developed the Intensive “Grieving and Living” Weekend Workshop with C4TH’s founder Holly Strelzik, to support remediating emotional pain for professionals and high functioning adults. Dr. Gingold is also certified in as a GRM: Pet Loss Specialist (a six-week group on-line or in person) and a Helping Children with Loss Specialist (a four-week group on-line or in person). Both of these programs are also offered one-on-one if preferred.
- Yeshiva University
- Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
- Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute
- Harvard Medical School/ Cambridge Hospital
- Northeastern University
- Bouve College of Health Sciences
- Syracuse University
- Women in Medicine, a part of Top Docs USA 2025
- NJ Top Docs (2019-Current)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
- New Jersey Psychological Association (NJPA)
- Essex-Union County Association of Psychologists (EUCAP)
- National Educational Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD)
We offer supportive group programs and workshops designed to help individuals navigate grief, build resilience, and find healing in a compassionate community.
- 8-week GRM Support Group and 4-week Alumni Group
- 6-week Pet Loss Group
- 4-week When Children Grieve Group (this can be used for prevention both for parents, teachers and school staff, in hospitals, with police)
- “What We Carry Quietly” Intensive Weekend Workshop in collaboration with Center for the Heart’s (C4TH) founder Holly Strelzik.
- Multi-Family DBT Skills Training Program
- Young Adult DBT Skills Training Program
- DBT Graduate Group
Please click here to view Dr. Gingold’s GRM groups.
Dr. Gingold can do all of these groups in person or virtual except the Weekend Intensive will also be offered as a hybrid program.
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
Dr. Rachel Gingold, a psychologist and a leader in the Family Health and Wellness Services practice, is one of the most responsive and compassionate therapists with an effective way to support and facilitate change. Rachel is an amazing person and clinician. I met her over 10 years ago as a possible psychologist for my son but for several reasons, she became my therapist and has supported me through individual therapy. She has also served as an effective arbiter with my family members, which all of us have found most valuable. She is particularly talented in helping lay persons translate the theoretical basis of DBT to day to day use and bringing such an effective practice to the broader community. I regularly recommend her without exception.
An exceptional team of incredibly smart, compassionate professionals doing life changing work.