About Tracey
Tracey York is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 37 years of experience. She works with people facing addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression, anxiety, and stress. Parents concerned about parenting, blended family tensions, or grief may also find focused support here.
Tracey uses a blend of straightforward and empathetic approaches. Sessions often include goal-setting, practical skills, and space to talk through painful memories.
How Tracey works
She combines cognitive skills work with emotion-focused and mindfulness-based techniques to address both thoughts and feelings. She has a long history helping people with sexual concerns, compulsive behaviors, and complications from chronic illness or pain. Tracey also helps people navigate family conflict, commitment worries, codependency, and issues around identity and belonging.
Her work includes attention to complex trauma, dissociation, and mood challenges. Her style can be more directive when a clear plan is needed, yet she also makes room for a client-led pace. Expect a collaborative atmosphere where the focus is on practical tools you can use between sessions to manage symptoms and improve relationships.
Tracey values cultural awareness and aims to understand a person’s religious and cultural context. She guides people toward calmer routines, clearer communication, and steadier relationships, helping them build skills that last after therapy ends.
Tracey lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Tracey works with
The areas below are the ones Tracey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Tracey’s Methods Translate to Online Therapy
Tracey blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) in ways that work well online. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and respected; it helps when someone needs a steady, supportive space to sort feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets unhelpful thought and behavior patterns with concrete exercises and homework, which translates easily to video or messaging. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and changing interaction patterns in close relationships, useful for people dealing with intimacy and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that uses practical skills, emotion processing, or both, based on what the person needs most.
Online formats offer practical advantages for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or hands-free is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or a lower-key way to connect. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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