About Clarissa
Clarissa Reed is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 24 years of clinical experience. She has worked in independent practice and in community settings, helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. Her approach is down-to-earth and respectful, and she focuses on building a practical plan that fits each person.
Clarissa adapts conversations and techniques to what each person needs. She listens first, then helps identify small steps that can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies people can try between meetings to build confidence and cope with change. She draws on client-centered work to create a supportive space where people feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot patterns of thinking that worsen anxiety and mood.
She also blends existential ideas about meaning and choices when clients face big life transitions. Clarissa has experience addressing a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy and self-image. She also helps with practical challenges like sleep problems, anger, and workplace stress.
People who want straightforward guidance and a collaborative style often find her approach useful. Clarissa emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping goals realistic. She supports each person in finding manageable ways to feel better and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Clarissa uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening-based relationship where people can talk through worries and life choices. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a steady space to sort feelings and goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical experiments that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT is useful for tackling sleep problems, panic, rumination, and day-to-day coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Clarissa will review goals, preferences, and how you respond to different methods and then collaborate on a plan. That means trying techniques together and adjusting what doesn’t fit until the process feels useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, written reflections, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and stick with regular work toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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