About Clarissa
Clarissa Reed is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 24 years of experience. She has run a independent practice since 2003 and has a long history working in community and in-home settings. Clarissa focuses on helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed take the next step toward change.
Her style is warm, direct, and respectful. Sessions center on the person's goals and practical steps that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and patterns, then helps people test new ways of handling stress, relationships, and day-to-day struggles. Clarissa commonly helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, work-related fatigue, and questions around identity and intimacy.
ADHD is listed among the areas she addresses when it factors into someone's challenges. She uses approaches drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas, and she brings experience with relationship-focused methods. In sessions she balances validation with clear, doable strategies to change unhelpful habits.
The result is a plan tailored to each person's life and priorities. People who come for help can expect a collaborative process. Clarissa aims to make options understandable and manageable.
She helps people build skills that fit their daily routines and values.
How Clarissa’s Approaches Fit Online Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person’s perspective and building a supportive, nonjudgmental space. It helps people clarify values and make choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Clarissa collaborates with each person to decide which methods make sense for their goals and daily life. Together they set priorities and try strategies in ways that fit the person’s schedule and preferences.
Online formats offer useful flexibility for doing that work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when time is tight or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, practice new skills, and get quick guidance without scheduling a full call. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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