Teresa McCarthy, LPC

Teresa McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience based in Pennsylvania. She lists stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting, grief, sleeping problems, anger, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes among the areas she addresses.

Teresa draws on a client-centered approach. She listens first and helps people set the pace. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, whether that is managing mood, reducing anxiety, or coping with past trauma.

Her background includes work in foster care and adoption, domestic violence services, community mental health, school-based and home-based therapy, mobile therapy, and a county psychiatric hospital. Those roles exposed her to complex cases such as dual diagnosis, codependency, attachment issues, and family-of-origin problems. She also mentions an interest in supporting people affected by chronic illness and pain and those who experienced childhood abuse.

Teresa uses a mosaic of methods rather than a single technique. Parts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, existential ideas, EMDR, narrative work, and trauma-focused practices can be woven into sessions as appropriate. The aim is practical: notice patterns that cause distress and try different ways to respond to them.

She says she is patient and attentive, and works without judgment. People lead the work and set goals. Teresa prefers to move at a pace the client finds comfortable and focuses on building trust so more work can be done over time.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work