About Theresa
Theresa Bradbury is a Pennsylvania psychologist with more than 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and the aftermath of trauma. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable for worried parents and adults alike.
Theresa spent many years working on child and adolescent psychiatric units and as a school psychologist. That background gives her direct experience with emotional and behavioral dysregulation, learning differences, and special education plans.
Background and approach
She has developed individualized IEPs and 504 plans and knows how school and medical systems intersect. In independent practice she has focused on PTSD, anger management, depression, and attention difficulties in both children and adults. She has administered and interpreted numerous psychoeducational tests and can help families understand school progress and accommodations.
Her clinical work includes coaching people through life transitions and stress related to finances and the pandemic. Theresa uses a range of approaches to match a person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused skills to manage strong feelings, and acceptance-based strategies to build values-driven action.
Sessions aim to teach clear skills and steps that people can use between meetings. Theresa works with parents and individuals who want practical help with mood, behavior, attention, and relationship concerns. She keeps explanations simple and focuses on realistic goals.
If you want help sorting next steps for school, work, or home, she offers a steady, experienced perspective.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It is often helpful for mood, worry, and attention-related challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. She treats therapy as a collaboration and will check in about what is helping and what needs to change so sessions stay useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give more flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face when that matters. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a better fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief coaching, skill practice, or when someone prefers written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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