Terry Petrovich

Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate major life changes and relationship stress. Terry often works with women facing competing demands from work, family, and personal needs. She emphasizes practical skills and steady support during difficult transitions such as separation and divorce.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral methods with dialectical strategies and mindfulness. That means sessions include clear steps to change unhelpful thinking, tools to manage intense emotions, and simple grounding practices to reduce overwhelm. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set concrete, short-term goals that move people forward.

Terry has direct experience with parenting concerns, domestic violence, and safety planning where those issues are part of the picture. She also addresses mood issues like depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety, stress, ADHD, and grief. Her work touches on identity matters including LGBT and gender dysphoria, and on relationship themes such as communication, abandonment, intimacy, and jealousy.

People can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style that aims to build skills they can use outside sessions. Terry describes herself as open minded and wants clients to feel empowered and more comfortable in their own skin. She balances active problem solving with time to understand how a person’s daily life and roles affect their choices.

Services are provided in New York and sessions are conducted in English. To start, readers should use the Start Therapy workflow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How these approaches guide online work

Terry commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helping people in transition. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for regulating strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Terry will talk with each person about goals, what has helped or not helped before, and personal preferences. That conversation guides which tools are used and how sessions are structured, so therapy feels practical and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and offering sessions during nonstandard hours. Many clients find that focused skills practice, homework checks, and solution-focused planning translate well to remote sessions, while the therapist and client adapt methods that best suit each person's routine and needs.