Terry Petrovich, LMHC

Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of practice based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage relationship stress, parenting challenges, anxiety, mood concerns, and issues around self-esteem. Terry writes plainly and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for busy lives.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear goals and identify small steps that move a person forward.

Terry has experience supporting people through domestic violence concerns and separation when safety and planning are central. She also works with people facing grief, trauma, career stress, and the ripple effects of ADHD and mood disorders. Jealousy, communication problems, and relationship intimacy are noted focus areas she addresses in sessions.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps clients name problems, try concrete strategies in everyday life, and reflect on what works. Sessions tend to emphasize skill practice, simple behavior changes, and short-term problem solving alongside longer-term growth.

Terry prefers to empower clients to feel more comfortable in their own skin. She works with women on concerns like balancing multiple roles, life transitions, self-love, and purpose. Prospective clients are invited to begin by selecting a continue button on this profile and completing the matching questionnaire to schedule based on therapist availability.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship patterns by teaching people to notice thoughts and try different behaviors. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to handle conflict and strong feelings; it can be useful for intense mood swings, anger, and relationship struggles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Terry will collaborate with each person to decide which tools to try first based on goals and what feels doable. That might mean practicing CBT exercises one week, then using DBT techniques for emotion control the next, and adding mindfulness practices to calm reactivity.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into a busy day by removing commute time, making shorter check-ins possible, or allowing scheduling around work or parenting. Online work can make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to bring real-life situations into conversation without traveling to an office.