About Earl
Earl Driscoll is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania who helps people facing anxiety, addiction, trauma, and related issues. He offers a straightforward, compassionate approach that aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical for everyday life. He focuses on social anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and substance and process addictions.
He also works with people dealing with shame, guilt, grief, sexual concerns, and questions about sexuality. He strives to create an affirming space for LGBTQ+ clients and for men seeking help with emotional struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Earl uses client-centered care alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses. He also draws on mindfulness to build tolerance for difficult feelings and EMDR for people processing trauma.
His style is direct but respectful. He listens for practical changes a person can try between sessions and helps set small, achievable steps. He also uses motivational interviewing when people feel stuck about change or ambivalent about recovery.
With 17 years of experience as a PA LCSW Earl combines clinical tools with everyday language. He supports people working through grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, OCD symptoms, and relationship intimacy concerns. Therapy with him aims to reduce overwhelm and increase a person’s sense of choice and direction.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of sessions. The therapist follows what matters most to the client, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify goals and values. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new responses. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and stress management.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method some people use when working through traumatic memories. It combines focused memory work with guided bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and their triggers.
Earl treats choosing an approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to focus on skills-building, trauma processing, motivation for change, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face without travel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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