Teresa McCarthy, LPC

Teresa McCarthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who combines practical experience across multiple care settings with a calm, client-centered approach. She enjoys nature and animals, especially dogs, and is a parent to two grown daughters.

Her professional background includes work in foster care and adoption, domestic violence services, and community mental health. She has provided care as a mobile therapist, school-based therapist, home-based therapist, and in a county psychiatric hospital, and draws on that variety of settings to address complex and everyday challenges.

Teresa works with individuals facing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, addiction, codependency, complex trauma and PTSD, attachment concerns, family of origin issues, shame, low self-esteem, gender identity questions, and self-defeating patterns. She has a particular interest in women’s empowerment, supporting people who were abused as children, and assisting those coping with chronic illness and pain.

Clients report that she is calm, non-judgmental, open, warm, and caring, and that sessions with her feel safe. She brings patience and attentiveness to each meeting, following a truly client-led model in which the person seeking help sets the pace and direction while she accompanies and supports the process.

Teresa uses a mosaic of therapeutic methods tailored to each person’s needs. Her approach draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Inner Child work, trauma-focused techniques, Narrative Therapy, Gestalt principles, Existential therapy, and Mindfulness, always centered on the client’s goals and experience.