About Terry
Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people navigate life changes and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and parenting pressures. Terry aims to make therapy understandable and usable for busy people.
Terry prefers straightforward work in sessions. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change them. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to help with emotion regulation and managing intense feelings.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are another part of her approach. She teaches simple exercises to reduce rumination and increase moment-to-moment awareness. Solution-focused techniques help clients identify small, achievable steps toward goals.
She has a long history of supporting people with relationship strain, intimacy issues, grief, and trauma and abuse. Terry also addresses career stress, self-esteem, and challenges tied to parenting and life transitions. She notes experience in working with domestic violence concerns where safety is important.
Terry often works with women who are juggling many roles and want more balance and self-acceptance. She aims to empower clients to feel more comfortable in their own skin. Sessions are described as practical, collaborative, and focused on real-world change.
How specific approaches translate to online sessions
Terry commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Terry will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try strategies that fit those needs. She adapts exercises and pacing based on what is most helpful for the individual.
Online formats support that flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for teaching skills and doing guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs a shorter, more frequent touchpoint between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English