Terry Petrovich

Terry Petrovich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, relationship problems, and life transitions. Terry often supports people navigating parenting questions, career changes, mood disorders, and identity-related concerns including LGBT and gender dysphoria issues.

Terry uses straightforward, skills-based methods in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and handle strong emotions. She also incorporates mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to make change practical and manageable.

Her style is open-minded and collaborative. Terry describes herself as someone who wants to empower clients to feel more grounded and comfortable in their own skin. She often helps people who feel overwhelmed by the many roles they juggle, and those coping with grief, trauma, or the fallout from relationship problems.

Terry has experience addressing domestic violence concerns and the safety issues that can follow. She also brings work around abandonment, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, and forgiveness into sessions when relevant. Her background includes helping people with self-esteem, isolation, and finding purpose.

She offers practical, paced work that emphasizes coping skills and clearer decision-making. Sessions focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings, and on building tools for managing mood, anger, and stress over time.

Approaches that inform online work

Terry commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and anger. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills when feelings feel overwhelming.

She also brings mindfulness and solution-focused methods into sessions to help people stay present and build practical changes fast. Choosing an approach is collaborative - the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single method up front.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which session formats are offered before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Many people find online work makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, to have shorter check-ins when needed, or to join sessions without commuting. The therapist will discuss which ways of meeting will best support your goals and daily life during the initial scheduling conversation.