About Terry
Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical strategies to help people manage anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and life changes. Terry tends to work with women on issues like parenting, career pressures, and self-worth, and she addresses relationship problems including situations involving domestic violence.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) alongside mindfulness and solution-focused methods.
Background and approach
Sessions usually center on clear goals, skill-building, and problem solving rather than long, abstract discussions. Terry draws on decades of clinical work and familiarity with many life transitions. That experience informs how she helps people handle grief, bipolar and depressive mood concerns, and the ups and downs of day-to-day stress.
She also supports people facing gender identity questions and LGBT-related concerns. When safety is an issue, especially where domestic abuse is present, she pays close attention to practical needs and planning. Terry also has background in divorce processes and mediation practices and helps people navigate separation-related challenges.
Therapy with her can include short-term coaching-style work or longer-term support for deeper patterns. She aims to help people feel more grounded, make clearer choices, and build coping skills that fit their daily life.
How Terry's Methods Work Online
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, stress, depression, and mood shifts by teaching practical tools to change thinking and behavior.DBT emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier ways to relate to others. It can be useful for intense emotions, relationship difficulties, and coping with overwhelming stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Terry discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods to fit what a client needs. She combines skills training, mindfulness practice, and solution-focused planning so the work matches each person's life and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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