Terri Bassi-Cook, LPC

Terri Bassi-Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years of experience in Pennsylvania. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction, grief, trauma, and parenting concerns. Terri aims to make therapy practical and understandable for anyone who is worried or worn out.

Her style is collaborative and direct. She listens first, then offers observations and questions to help people zero in on what matters most. Terri emphasizes how thinking about a problem shapes the problem itself, and she works with clients to test and reshape unhelpful beliefs.

Terri uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot thought patterns that keep people stuck. She also draws on client-centered approaches to build a respectful, nonjudgmental working relationship. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used when people want concrete change and short-term goals.

Sessions include practical exercises, gentle challenge, and planning for real life. Terri encourages small experiments and everyday practice so progress carries outside the session. She aims to help people feel more in control, less overwhelmed, and clearer about next steps.

People who value a warm but straightforward approach may find her style helpful. Terri welcomes clients of all identities and works to tailor plans to each person’s needs and goals.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Terri commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience, with the therapist offering empathic listening and collaborative planning to help people feel understood and decide on meaningful goals.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Terri works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than insisting on one way of working. She will check in regularly and adjust techniques based on what helps most in daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and screen-shared worksheets, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins or people who prefer typing, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections and shorter, frequent contact. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.