About Us
Who We Are
Guilford Psychological Services is a group practice of doctoral-level psychologists and licensed clinicians on the Connecticut shoreline.
When you come to GPS, you work with one clinician—and you have the expertise of a whole team behind them. Our clinicians consult together, learn from one another, and share what they know freely. Every one of us brings specialized expertise, and every week we put our minds together on the work.
How We Got Here
A note from our founder
When my family moved to the Connecticut shoreline, I had a small solo practice. I was working with extraordinary clients—people whose pain often felt overwhelming and out of their control, and in some cases people fighting for their lives. I loved the work. What I didn’t love was doing it alone, without the resources I knew could strengthen their care.
The hardest calls were often from people I couldn’t take on, either because my schedule was full or because they needed something outside my expertise. It was remarkably difficult to find the right local specialist, and I knew how easily an exhausting search could make someone lose momentum—or land in care that wasn’t the right fit and conclude that therapy didn’t work. It does. But fit—real fit, grounded in the right training and expertise—is everything.
I like to joke that GPS was born of my need for control—not because I am especially orderly, as anyone who knows me can attest, but because I hated feeling helpless when I couldn’t identify the right fit for someone. I wanted to be able to say, “I know exactly who you should see,” and have that clinician be someone I trusted, just down the hall.
I also wanted a team. DBT, the treatment at the heart of my clinical training, teaches that consultation is not merely helpful; it is foundational to good care. Every therapist has blind spots and every therapist gets stuck. For clients fighting to stay alive, especially, I wanted more than just me and my mind on their side.
I wasn’t the only clinician who felt that way. Another intensively trained DBT provider and I found each other, first over coffee and then in a weekly consultation meeting in her office across from the McDonald’s in Guilford. Together we started Guilford’s first adult DBT skills group. The team gradually grew, and in the summer of 2016 I founded Guilford Psychological Services with two newly trained DBT therapists—first in one shared office, then another, and eventually in our current home on York Street.
When the pandemic changed how and where people lived and worked, GPS entered a new chapter. We added excellent clinicians with distinct areas of expertise: trauma, anxiety and OCD, couples and families, sleep, perinatal mental health, and more.
They were drawn to GPS for many of the same reasons I had wanted a team: rigor and warmth, colleagues who would challenge their thinking and back them up, and a practice that took both excellent care and therapists’ quality of life seriously. Our meetings are satisfying because smart, curious clinicians get to keep learning together—and feel supported in doing difficult work.
I often say that I built my dream job by bringing together my favorite parts of every place I had worked: the seminars of academia, the grand rounds of medical centers, the consultation team and nonjudgmental stance of DBT, and the daily experience of working alongside people who are stronger than I am in the areas that aren’t mine.
But the truest version is this: I built the structure; the team did the becoming. GPS is now a reflection of the people in the room—their rigor, warmth, curiosity, and willingness to think together. The founding idea has never changed: no clinician here practices alone, and every client benefits from the care of an entire team behind them.
— Megan Warner, PhD, Founder & Clinical Director
How We Practice
A client can never fail therapy.
DBT teaches that when therapy isn’t working, the treatment and therapist must keep stretching—not blame the client. Our weekly consultation team helps us stay rigorous about the work and nonjudgmental with one another.
Do what works.
We care about effectiveness and are not possessive about cases. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and help point you toward someone who is. If we later realize a colleague would serve you better, we will offer that too.
No one practices alone.
Every therapist has blind spots. At GPS, each clinician has a room full of colleagues with complementary expertise. When one of us is stuck, none of us is stuck alone—and our clients receive the benefit.
Never stop learning.
Our clients deserve the most effective, current care available. We pursue ongoing training, bring in outside experts, and build seminars and consultation into the practice so that learning never becomes optional.
Training & Standards
Across our team, education and clinical training have included Yale, Brown, Rutgers, Texas A&M, the University of Florida, Antioch University, the Yale Child Study Center, the Child Mind Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Ongoing training and weekly consultation are built into how we practice.
We believe therapy works best when it is both compassionate and scientifically informed. That combination—warmth and rigor—is what GPS was built on.
We are currently accepting new clients for in-person and telehealth appointments.
Our Office
Where We Are
Our home is Guilford, Connecticut, on the second floor of 34 York Street in the heart of town. Our care also extends beyond Connecticut: many of our clinicians are PSYPACT-authorized to provide telehealth in more than 40 states.