About Terry
Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She practices from New York and brings a direct, practical style to sessions. Terry aims to help people sort through stress, mood concerns, relationship challenges, and questions about identity and purpose.
Her background includes extensive clinical work across mood disorders, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Terry also focuses on parenting concerns, career transitions, and issues that often affect women, such as balancing multiple roles and grappling with self-worth.
How Terry works
Terry uses straightforward, skills-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies. She blends mindfulness and solution-focused steps so people can try small changes and notice what helps. Sessions emphasize concrete tools for handling intense feelings, improving communication, and managing daily stress.
People meet Terry for help with ADHD symptoms, bipolar and depressive episodes, seasonal mood shifts, and intimacy-related struggles like jealousy and abandonment. She also supports those dealing with domestic violence histories, divorce and separation matters, and gender dysphoria concerns, addressing safety and practical planning when needed. Terry describes her approach as open-minded and collaborative.
She works with clients to set clear goals, test strategies between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to build skills that fit each person’s life and responsibilities.
Terry lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Terry works with
The areas below are the ones Terry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Terry’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. It focuses on practical steps like testing a worry, scheduling manageable activities, and building problem-solving skills.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It includes grounding and distress-tolerance techniques that can calm intense moments and aid communication under stress.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust plans as needed. Clients and the therapist choose which skills to emphasize and how to pace the work together.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins or brief coaching, and text can support ongoing reminders and practice between meetings. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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