About Tracy
Tracy Rider is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She offers steady, practical support and aims to meet each person where they are. Tracy brings ten years of experience to sessions and focuses on clear, usable steps alongside emotional understanding.
Her work blends practical techniques with deeper conversation. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and make small changes that feel doable.
Background and approach
Narrative work helps people reframe difficult chapters of their lives. For trauma-related concerns she draws on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing methods to reduce the intensity of painful memories. Tracy emphasizes respect and patience in sessions.
She listens closely and tailors pacing to what feels safe and useful for each person. Sessions often mix short skills practice, reflection, and planning for real-world changes outside therapy. Her background includes academic and volunteer work connected to counseling and long personal experience managing chronic illness and family life.
That combination shapes a practical, steady style that values a person’s strengths as the starting point for change. Tracy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. She works in English and carries a New York LMHC credential.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Tracy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR as primary tools in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. EMDR targets disturbing memories by processing them in ways that often lessen their emotional charge and help people feel safer in daily life.She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people rewrite how they tell their own stories. This approach looks at the meanings people make from events and supports steps toward a more helpful personal narrative. Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. Tracy will work with each person to decide what fits best based on their goals, symptoms, and comfort with different techniques.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions, do shorter focused work, or use therapy when schedules require more flexibility. These formats make it possible to fit regular sessions into busy lives while still using evidence-based methods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English