Terry Petrovich, LMHC

Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of practice based in New York. She focuses on practical, skill-based work that helps people manage stress, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Terry often supports clients facing parenting challenges, career strain, grief, and identity-related worries while keeping conversations straightforward and solution oriented.

She uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are woven into sessions to build awareness and set short-term goals.

Terry pays special attention to women’s issues and the particular pressures many women report balancing multiple roles. She helps people talk through boundaries, self-esteem, and life transitions without judgment. She has experience addressing domestic violence concerns and safety planning within her work when needed.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. Terry works with clients to create step-by-step plans, small experiments, and home practice that fit daily life. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.

Prospective clients can expect clear goals and tools they can use between sessions. Terry adapts approaches to each person’s needs and focuses on building skills that carry into ordinary days.

Practical approaches for online therapy and skills work

Many of Terry’s approaches center on teaching concrete skills people can use right away. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, helpful for relationship strains and emotional reactivity.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Terry will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they set short-term goals and decide whether to emphasize CBT thinking work, DBT skills, mindfulness practice, or solution-focused steps at any point.

Online formats make regular work more manageable. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or better when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief updates, coaching, and on-the-go problem solving. These options help people fit therapy around work, parenting, or travel while keeping the focus on real-life skill building.