For almost a month, federal prosecutors said, therapist Diane Sylvia planned a violent assault on a Massachusetts man with a stranger she believed to be a hitman. 
 
 "He needs his pretty little face bashed in, that's what I really want," she allegedly said of the victim during a meeting last month in her Linwood office. 
 
 The hitman, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, was actually an undercover agent from the FBI, which arrested Sylvia Monday on a charge of soliciting the violent attack on a man she claimed had bilked her for money for years. 
 
 Sylvia, 58, of Somers Point, was introduced to the undercover agent by a patient with past connections to an unspecified "organized criminal gang," an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint, after she told the patient in September of her desire for revenge. 
 
 Sylvia, a licensed clinical social worker, told the undercover agent her intended victim "ended up with some stuff on me that he was gonna report me to the licensing board, which means I have no job," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court. 
 
 "How 'bout we break one arm, and just mess up his face, but not with acid?" she allegedly told the agent while making a slashing motion on her cheek. 
 
 "Something that makes him not so cute ... something so he can't do push-ups, so he can't work out." 
 
 Investigators said Sylvia went as far as to buy a pre-paid cellphone to communicate with the undercover agent, and provided the "hitman" with her victim's license plate. 
 
 She ultimately paid the undercover agent $5,000 to carry out the assault, prosecutors said. 
 
 During an audio and video-recorded meeting at her office on Halloween, the complaint says, she suggested she might throw the pre-paid phone off the Ocean City bridge once the job was complete. 
 
 Sylvia's professional profile on Psychology Today says her therapy practice treats individuals, couples, families and children. 
 
 "Our words and thoughts are powerful and help create the life we desire," she wrote on the profile. "The most important component of therapy is the relationship between the client and therapist and the client's willingness to make the decision to change." 
 
 Sylvia was slated to make her initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Camden Monday afternoon, prosecutors said. 
 
 Her attorney could not immediately be reached for comment. 
 
 Thomas Moriarty may be reached at tmoriarty@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ThomasDMoriarty. Find NJ.com on Facebook. 
 
 Have a tip? Tell us. nj.com/tips ||||| The New Jersey psychotherapist wanted revenge, and, as luck would have it, one of her patients had revealed in his therapy sessions that he was a former member of an organized criminal gang, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday. 
 
 And that’s how the therapist, Diane Sylvia, ended up giving orders to an F.B.I. agent posing as a hit man to beat up someone who was blackmailing her, according to the complaint. 
 
 “He needs his pretty little face bashed in, that’s what I really want.” 
 
 “A broken arm would help, too.” 
 
 “Something so he can’t do push-ups, so he can’t work out.” 
 
 A licensed social worker who counsels individuals, couples and children in her office in Linwood, N.J., Ms. Sylvia, 58, was charged on Monday in federal court in Camden with one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence. She was released on $50,000 bail. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. ||||| 10PM: Woman on trial for trying to hire hit man charged with same crime again 
 
 6PM: Woman on trial for trying to hire hit man charged with same crime again 
 
 SALT LAKE CITY — A Herriman woman now convicted of trying to arrange to have her ex-husband murdered — who was previously charged with seeking a second hit man while in jail — was charged yet again Friday with trying to hire a third hit man. 
 
 The stunning charges against Linda Tracy Gillman, 70, were filed on the same day a jury began deliberating her initial case. She was found guilty Friday afternoon of one count of criminal solicitation, a first-degree felony, but was acquitted of a second count. 
 
 "I've never seen anything like it," Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said. 
 
 Early last year, Gillman was charged with two counts of criminal solicitation, a first-degree felony, for allegedly asking one of her employees — a man who also rents a condominium from her — "if he could arrange to have her ex-husband, Mr. D. Gillman, killed," charging documents state. 
 
 She allegedly gave the man $5,000 and promised him $100,000 more once her ex-husband and his current wife were dead and she collected her ex-husband's life insurance. 
 
 Gillman was married to Duane H. Gillman, a veteran bankruptcy attorney in Salt Lake City. 
 
 The plan was for the acquaintance to hire a third person to carry out the murder and make it look like Duane Gillman died from a drug overdose, according to the charges. Instead, the man went to police and Gillman was arrested. 
 
 Then in June, Gillman was charged with attempted obstruction of justice, a third-degree felony. Police say while she was in the Salt Lake County Jail, she approached another inmate who she thought was affiliated with a white supremacist gang. 
 
 "Gillman referred to herself as 'the bank,' and said that she 'could make everything happen'" if he would take care of the man who went to the police, charging documents say. 
 
 Gillman said that if "somehow (the man) ended up dead or disappearing, then I would walk out of here a free woman," investigators wrote in the charges. 
 
 She also allegedly said that if the man disappeared, "it would make all her dreams come true." 
 
 That case was eventually dismissed due to problems with witnesses. 
 
 This week, Gillman went on trial for her criminal solicitation charges. Prosecutors recounted the allegations against Gillman on Friday morning, saying the evidence in the case, including audio recordings, clearly laid out the woman's plot. 
 
 But Gillman's attorney, Colleen Coebergh, argued Gillman was the one who had been solicited by the so-called hitman, who was actually after the elderly woman's money. 
 
 Jurors began deliberating the case later in the day. 
 
 But in an unbelievable turn of events, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office announced Friday that Gillman had tried to hire a hit man once again from the jail as recently as three weeks ago. She wanted to have the prosecution's key witness in her original case murdered, as well as an attorney, according to court documents. 
 
 She was charged Friday with two more counts of criminal solicitation, a first-degree felony, and two counts of obstructing justice, a second-degree felony. 
 
 More on Linda Gillman: 
 
 Woman accused of trying find hitman to take out another hitman A woman already facing charges for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband now faces additional charges for trying to find another hitman to take out the first hitman, according to charging documents. 
 
 The new charges say Gillman asked an attorney on Feb. 13 to bring her a check while visiting her at the jail. Gillman then filled out the check and placed it in an envelope addressed to "M.K.," according to police. 
 
 Jail corrections officers intercepted the letter, noting that it was against policy for mail to be delivered directly to an inmate. They opened the letter and noticed the check was made out for $155,000, the new charges state. 
 
 The next day, investigators interviewed another inmate — a woman Gillman had befriended while behind bars. Gillman told the woman she would post her bail if she agreed to break into a storage unit and destroy two CDs that contained recordings of Gillman and others involved in her case, according to the charges. 
 
 Gillman also wanted the woman to find the prosecution's key witness in her case — the former employee whom she was accused of originally asking to have her husband killed — and "give him a 'confess' letter that was authored by Gillman," the charges state. If he refused to sign it, the woman (inmate) was told to contact a specific person (who is not named in the court documents) and take the former employee "out," the charges state. 
 
 In addition, Gillman wanted the woman to ask the same unnamed person "if he would be willing to kill" an attorney who won a civil case against her, according to Gill. 
 
 "She had lined up an individual who would take the witness out. And in addition, asked to have an attorney killed in an opposing civil action against her that she had lost," the district attorney said. 
 
 The inmate provided police with several documents in Gillman's handwriting aimed to "provide incentive" for the alleged hit man to carry out the plan, the charges state, "and emphasizing that her case needed to be 'shot down.'" 
 
 The check was made out to a family member of the female inmate, according to the charges. 
 
 Bail for Gillman's new charges is set at $2.5 million. 
 
 On Friday, Gill praised the investigator who uncovered the new plot and noted that all the allegations are being taken seriously. 
 
 Sentencing for Gillman is set for April 23. She faces a potential sentence of five years to life in prison. 
 
 Contributing: McKenzie Romero 
 
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– A New Jersey psychotherapist was being extorted, and when one of her patients revealed in a session that he used to be in an organized crime gang, she allegedly hatched a plan for revenge. Police say Diane Sylvia, 58, asked her patient to get her in touch with a hitman so she could have the blackmailer murdered. Instead, the patient got in touch with the FBI in September and told the bureau what was going on, the New York Times reports. He pretended to get her in touch with a hitman, but the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent. By the time Sylvia met with the agent in October, she had allegedly downgraded her plan from murder to assault. She allegedly worked with the agent for a month to put together a plan, NJ.com reports. "He needs his pretty little face bashed in, that’s what I really want," Sylvia, a licensed social worker, allegedly told the agent. "A broken arm would help, too. Something so he can’t do push-ups, so he can’t work out." According to court documents, she made similar requests multiple times, explaining that it would make her "feel better" after being blackmailed by the man for years. She told the agent the man had information on her that he was threatening to report to the licensing board, causing her to lose her job. After allegedly paying the agent $5,000 to beat up the man and disfigure him, she was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged Monday with solicitation to commit a crime of violence. She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. As for her patient, he canceled the rest of his sessions with her after cooperating with the FBI. (A teen allegedly hired a hitman to kill his jeweler dad.)