About Terri
Terri Bassi-Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She works in Pennsylvania and offers a steady, practical style that focuses on what matters to each person. Expect a warm, nonjudgmental listener who asks clear questions and helps you set goals.
Her sessions are collaborative. She pays attention to how a person thinks about a problem and helps them test new ways of seeing things.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to be direct and useful, not full of jargon. Terri often highlights small changes that can make daily life easier. She uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try alternative approaches.
Motivational interviewing helps when making tough changes, and solution-focused ideas keep sessions goal-oriented and practical. Psychodynamic ideas also inform how past patterns show up now. Terri welcomes people of diverse identities and sexual orientations.
She listens without judgment to build a plan that fits each person’s needs. That plan may include coping strategies, communication skills, and steps for managing mood or attention difficulties. Sessions can be scheduled to suit many routines and life situations.
Terri emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and helps people practice new skills between meetings. The approach is straightforward and grounded in everyday life.
How therapy approaches and online sessions work together
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and values and creates space for them to lead the conversation. It helps when someone needs a supportive listener and collaborative planning to sort priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It’s practical and helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and attention challenges by teaching concrete skills and experiments to try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing is a short, goal-oriented approach that helps people resolve mixed feelings about change. It is useful for addiction, health behavior shifts, and any situation where finding personal motivation matters.
Terri works with each person to find the best mix of these approaches. She treats choosing a method as a team effort and adjusts based on your needs, goals, and what feels most useful in practice. Expect ongoing conversations about what’s working and small course corrections.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that suit their routines. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit appointments into busy lives while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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