About Tracy
Tracy Clarke is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and low self-esteem. She supports those dealing with depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep or eating struggles, and major life changes. Tracy also works with clients coping with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue.
Her style centers on building a strong therapeutic relationship. She draws on straightforward, practical techniques and listens first to understand each person’s story and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on manageable steps clients can use between meetings. Tracy uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She commonly integrates cognitive behavioral strategies to address thoughts and behaviors, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and increase psychological flexibility, and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client’s perspective.
She also brings elements of attachment-based thinking when relationship patterns are part of the concern. Before becoming an LPC Tracy completed a master’s degree at California University of Pennsylvania and has worked in mental health since 2016. She is finishing a PhD in counselor education and supervision, which informs her thinking about practice and training.
Her background includes substantial work with addictions and with people who have autism or intellectual disabilities. In sessions she aims to create a calm, direct space for problem solving. Tracy helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
She accepts international clients and offers a variety of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reduce symptoms and build coping skills for problems like anxiety, insomnia, and mood challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they connect and respond to others when past experiences affect current bonds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tracy collaborates with each client to pick methods that fit their needs and goals. She will check in about what is working, adjust techniques, and teach concrete skills the client can practice between sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and use screen-shared worksheets, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to use brief skill practice during the week, and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English