Mental Health Influencer
Gretchen Winterkorn hosts a popular TikTok channel @RealLiveHumanTherapist where she shares how she uses her skills as a therapist to grow and change in her personal life. Ideas about use of self, integrating AI with mental health, a changing landscape of neurodivergence as it relates to psychotherapeutic thought and more are the focus of her content.
My Story
I have spent over 20 years of my life in my own psychotherapy, including 9 years in psychoanalysis and believe this is as formative as my clinical training and experience on how I work and my ability to show up as a whole person therapist. I have spent the last 12 years in private practice, founded Winterkorn Counseling & Psychotherapy in Tribeca where I led a team of 7 therapists in my relational style for 4 years before moving to the Hudson Valley to refocus my energy and attention on integrating the land into my life and work. I trained analytically with a focus on feminist, anti-racist relational theories and thinking at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York, first completing their two year program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and then their 4 year intensive Psychoanalytic Program, holding certificates in both. I went to the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College to earn my Master’s in Social Work and spent 3 years post graduation in clinical supervision to gain my License in Clinical Social Work. Over 17 years I have worked clinically with clients in a number of settings, including founding and leading the H.E.L.P program at VillageCare Health Center in New York; leading a team of social workers serving clients with HIV & AIDS.
