Teresa McCarthy, LPC
Pennsylvania · 10 years in practice
Teresa McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania.
License and registration
- LPC, Pennsylvania
- PC012948 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1487862769 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Teresa
Teresa McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She brings ten years of counseling experience and a calm, patient presence to sessions. Teresa focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and relationship and family concerns.
She draws on EMDR alongside client-centered, cognitive behavioral, existential, and mindfulness approaches. Teresa adapts methods to each person's needs and pace. She aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and can work through painful experiences.
Background and approach
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 setting. Those roles exposed her to grief, complex trauma, PTSD, attachment and family-of-origin issues, and challenges related to chronic illness and pain.
Teresa has particular interest in supporting people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, codependency, gender dysphoria concerns, and body image and self-esteem struggles. She also helps individuals coping with bipolar disorder, sleep problems, anger, and the strain of life changes. In sessions she centers the client's goals and moves at a comfortable pace.
Teresa combines practical skills training, reflective discussion, and trauma-informed options like EMDR when appropriate. Her aim is to help people build coping strategies and clearer direction for their next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Teresa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Teresa names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Teresa's Approaches Work Online
Teresa uses EMDR to address traumatic memories and intense emotional reactions by pairing focused attention with guided processing; this can help reduce the power of painful images and feelings. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and goals while the therapist offers empathy, reflection, and support to help them find their own solutions.The right approach is usually discovered together. Teresa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try techniques that fit. She encourages a collaborative process and checks in often to adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual connection for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to exchange short updates, process emotions between sessions, or get support without waiting for the next appointment.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Teresa address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is Teresa's general therapy style?
Her style is calm, nonjudgmental, and client-centered. Sessions focus on the person's goals while moving at a pace that feels comfortable.
What experience does she bring?
Teresa has ten years of mental health experience working in foster care and adoption, domestic violence services, community mental health, schools, home-based and mobile therapy, and a county psychiatric hospital setting.
What are Teresa's credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet with a therapist.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Teresa?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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