About Trista
Trista Lalli is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working in Pennsylvania. She brings 12 years of clinical experience supporting adults and adolescents through stress, anxiety, grief, and problems with self-esteem. Trista aims to help people use their own strengths to handle life’s challenges and develop healthier routines.
She uses a client-centered approach and adapts methods to each person. That means conversations focus on what matters to the client, and practical tools are introduced when helpful.
Background and approach
Trista often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address anxious or depressive thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices appear in her work to build awareness and reduce reactivity. She also uses solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals and track progress.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or uncertain about change. Trista has worked in a variety of settings over her career. She has experience helping people with parenting concerns, relationship issues, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with anger and the tasks of daily scheduling and planning. Her style is open minded and nonjudgmental. Sessions are adapted to the person’s pace and goals.
Trista frames clients as the expert in their own lives and collaborates with them to make workable changes. To begin, she encourages a straightforward first step: a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to start talking. This helps shape an initial plan that reflects the client’s priorities and lifestyle.
How therapy methods translate to online sessions
Trista commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and helping clients set the agenda for each session. It helps when the goal is to sort through values, feelings, and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.She also incorporates mindfulness techniques to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, and can use solution-focused steps to set small, achievable goals between sessions. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust over time based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video can be useful for full conversations and exercises that involve visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts in writing and fit brief exchanges into a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into work, school, and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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