About Theresa
Theresa Bradbury is a Pennsylvania licensed psychologist with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. Theresa uses straightforward, practical work in sessions so people can try new skills and feel steadier day to day.
She has long experience in hospitals and schools, including child and adolescent psychiatric units and public school systems. That background shaped how she assesses learning and behavior concerns and how she helps people navigate educational plans.
Background and approach
Theresa has administered and interpreted many psychoeducational tests over the years. In independent practice she concentrates on PTSD, anger management, depression, and attention concerns across the lifespan. Her approach breaks big problems into small steps.
Sessions often include clear tools people can practice between meetings to manage emotions and routines. Theresa draws from several approaches, including cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, and dialectical behavior strategies. She blends these to match a person's current needs and goals, aiming for usable strategies rather than theory-heavy talks.
Theresa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are provided in English and are based in Pennsylvania. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Her long career includes work with trauma, grief, addictions, parenting strain, relationship difficulties, and issues such as chronic illness and career transitions. That range supports practical help for everyday struggles and sudden life changes.
How Theresa's Approaches Work Online
Theresa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT gives clear exercises and steps people can practice between sessions to see real change.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice difficult feelings without getting controlled by them and then choose actions that match their values. That approach can be useful for ongoing stress, anxiety, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and current needs and then recommend techniques to try. The process is collaborative and can shift as progress is made or circumstances change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people practice skills together in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Shorter issues or check-ins can work well through chat or text-based messaging. These options help fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to keep up with regular meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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