About Petra
Petra Gross is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She helps adults who are trying to regain balance after big changes. Petra also addresses relationship strain, parenting stress, and issues that come from family of origin.
She speaks English, Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, and practices from Virginia. Petra keeps sessions direct and compassionate. She aims to listen first, then set clear goals together.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward feedback and practical steps you can try between sessions. She combines gentle support with accountability so progress has shape and direction. Her work draws on mindfulness, self-compassion, and cognitive-behavioral ideas to reduce worry and improve coping.
She also uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as needed. These approaches help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small behavior changes that matter. In the opening sessions Petra focuses on building a working relationship and clarifying what you want to change.
She helps you break big problems into manageable steps and tracks small wins. Many clients notice reduced overwhelm as they learn skills to handle stress and difficult emotions. Petra has ten years of clinical experience as an LPC in Virginia.
Her background includes work with minority clients and mothers across different stages of parenting. She aims to create a space where people feel understood while they do the sometimes hard work of change.
How Petra’s approaches work online
Petra often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when helping people reduce anxiety and manage stress. ACT helps you notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match your values. CBT looks at thinking patterns that keep worry or low mood in place and teaches practical skills to shift those patterns.She also uses Client-Centered principles to create a listening, nonjudgmental tone in sessions. That means the therapist and client work together to pick methods that fit the person's goals and comfort level. Determining the best approach is a collaborative process that may change as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions let you use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text exchanges can serve as brief check-ins, skill practice, or flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
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