Mission of the Diana Baldwin Clinic

The Diana Baldwin Clinic fosters recovery and resilience in people infected and affected by HIV. We are a culturally-competent counseling service for clients of the Lax Center including their families and significant others. We strive to be accessible by those who may not otherwise have access; we serve people with Medicaid or are without insurance.

Services

Our services range from one-time crisis intervention and referral sessions to time limited psychotherapy or long term psychotherapy. Issues addressed range from depression to substance abuse to personal trauma to sexuality acceptance. Our recovery orientation allows each client to find the most helpful way for a Diana Baldwin Clinic therapist to assist, rather than be the expert about what the client needs to do. The following four therapists provide individual sessions.

Director

Kevin Moore, Psy.D., has over ten years of experience working in mental health. He has worked in a number of community mental health centers and psychiatric in-patient facilities. More recently he has become involved in the Recovery Movement and working in community-based services like FIGHT. Dr. Moore encourages and provides assistance for each individual to achieve his or her own desired goals. Recovering from mental illness and/or substance abuse is a gradual healing process that is generally best achieved among a network of professional, HIV-peer, and personal supports. Having received his graduate training as a psychotherapist at Rutgers University, Dr. Moore integrates multiple psychological perspectives (cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic) within the recovery principles of hope and personal responsibility.

Psychology Resident

Nicholas Wood, Psy. D., received his doctoral training in clinical psychology at the Widener University's Institute for Graduate Clinical psychology.  At Wiedener, he received pre-doctoral specializations in health psychology, in group psychotherapy, became certified by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, and graduated with the Clinical Psychology Award for Academic and Clinical excellence.  He teaches undergraduate psychology courses at Widener University and has special interests in the areas of psychoanalytic theory, psychological assessment, mindfulness based interventions, and in using psychological interventions to improve physical health outcomes.  He obtained his BA from Williams College with majors in history and psychology and a certificate in Spanish.  He is continually impressed by the strength of his clients at FIGHT and is grateful for the opportunity to work with them.

Psychology Intern

Woodwyn Koons, M.A., is a doctoral candidate at Widener University's Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology.  She has provided psychotherapy in community mental health and college counseling settings, and performed psychological assessments at a private practice.  Early in her career, Woodwyn worked as a research assistant on a protocol designed to decrease rates of transmission of HIV among the chronically mentally ill.  Woodwyn employs an integrative theoretical approach in psychotherapy, utilizing cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic techniques in a way that is tailored to the unique needs of the client.  Her work is also influenced by narrative therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.  Woodwyn received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, where she studied English and Theatre.  Selected as Widener's Neubauer Scholar, Woodwyn wrote and directed an oral history documentary film about Chester, PA as her scholarship project.  She is honored by the opportunity to serve FIGHT's clients.


TEACH Recovery Therapist

Earl Driscoll, MSS, LSW, is a licensed social worker.  Earl has received his post-secondary education at Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, and Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social Research.  Earl received a Masters degree at Bryn Mawr in Social Services, with a clinical concentration.  Earl utilizes cognitive behavioral, supportive and motivational interviewing psychotherpaeutic techniques.  Earl has worked in community mental health for over eight years as both a psychotherapist and case manager.  As a person in recovery, Earl has personal experience with addiction, which informs his professional approach to enhancing client strengths.  Earl wholeheartedly believes in the potential of everyone to engage in the recovery process.  Assisting individuals to engage in the recovery process while working at Philadelphia FIGHT is an oppotunity for which Earl has "immense gratitude."

Contact Information: If you are already a Lax Center patient and would like to make a therapy appointment, please call 215-985-4448.