Peter Jastermsky, LCSW

Peter Jastermsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 35 years of experience working across employee assistance programs, outpatient mental health clinics, and drug and alcohol services. He also has served as a clinical supervisor and trainer of therapists, bringing both frontline counseling and supervisory perspectives to his work.

He has provided individual counseling to adults age 21 and older in California and Pennsylvania, using a supportive, conversational style that begins wherever a person currently is in their life. He frames his role as a guide who helps people explore choices, weigh the consequences of changing versus not changing behaviors or circumstances, and set realistic, meaningful goals.

While understanding why patterns develop can be useful, he emphasizes practical steps to move beyond them. He often helps clients identify one actionable change that can create momentum, and he works from the view that each person is the expert on their own life. His clinical approaches include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), existential therapy, mindfulness therapy, and solution-focused therapy, and his areas of focus include stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, depression, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and related life transitions and caregiver or aging concerns.