About Tracy
Tracy Foster is a licensed counselor who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, mood struggles, addiction concerns, and the fallout from trauma. She brings a calm, direct manner to sessions and focuses on practical skills people can use right away. Tracy holds ME LCPC and FL LMHC credentials and has eight years of clinical experience.
She uses straightforward talk and active listening to help people name what is hardest for them.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning coping skills for panic, strategies for managing mood swings, and ways to handle grief or relationship conflict. Tracy supports people working through issues like anger, low self esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends structured techniques with reflective work.
That means some sessions focus on shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while others look at personal stories and life patterns that keep problems alive. She also uses mindfulness and motivational strategies when they fit a person’s goals. Tracy aims to make therapy a collaborative effort.
She helps people set clear, achievable goals and tracks progress over time. People who want direct tools plus a thoughtful space to process often find this style useful. Before meeting with a therapist, she asks people about the specific challenges they want to address.
That information guides whether sessions emphasize symptom management, addiction recovery skills, or exploring deeper emotional wounds. Tracy draws on her eight years of practice to tailor each plan to the person in front of her.
How Tracy Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Tracy commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or panic. DBT adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions feel overwhelming.She also brings mindfulness techniques into sessions to help people notice their experience without judgment and reduce reactivity. These short practices can be paired with CBT or DBT tools to make skills stick in daily life. Choosing an approach is a shared decision; she works with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines. Video allows face-to-face work and skill coaching, phone calls can be less bandwidth intensive, chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use therapy in ways that fit their schedule and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English