About Tracey
Tracey York is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and addictive behaviors. She brings 37 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, grief, parenting challenges, body image, and sexual concerns. Tracey aims to create a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings and practical problems without judgment.
She uses straightforward, goal-focused work alongside more reflective listening. That means sessions may include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing new ways of relating, and trying out small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
Tracey balances a directive style with moments that let clients lead the topics that matter most. Her background includes long experience helping people impacted by trauma, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. That work has included exposure-based approaches to reduce trauma reactions and reduce anxiety that gets in the way of daily life.
She also has a history of addressing substance use and behavioral addictions with motivational strategies and practical planning. Tracey has spent much of her career working with marginalized communities and continues to broaden her understanding of different cultures and faiths. She supports LGBT clients and those navigating blended family or parenting challenges, commitment concerns, and grief related to life changes.
In sessions she focuses on skills people can use right away: coping tools for stress, communication techniques for relationships, and steps to manage mood and increase safety. The work is collaborative, aimed at clearer choices and steadier daily routines.
How Tracey’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding first. The therapist reflects what clients say and follows their lead to help them feel heard and to clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions, and it supports building safer, more connected ways of relating that can improve relationships and intimacy.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Tracey will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adapt them over time so the work matches daily needs and progress.
Online sessions give flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, get brief support between meetings, or manage pacing when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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