Tracey York, LPC
Pennsylvania · 37 years in practice
Tracey York is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 37 years of experience supporting people coping with addiction, trauma, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, and grief.
License and registration
- LPC, Pennsylvania
- PC007191 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1568644359 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 37
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Tracey
Tracey York is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 37 years of experience supporting people coping with addiction, trauma, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also helps with intimacy-related concerns, eating and body image issues, parenting stress, and navigating major life changes.
She works with LGBTQ clients and addresses a wide range of concerns tied to personality and behavioral patterns. Tracey uses a mix of practical and reflective approaches to therapy.
Background and approach
She often takes a more directed approach when clients need clear steps, and she also draws on client-centered listening when people need space to be heard. Her stated approaches include Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. Her work includes long experience with addiction and compulsive behaviors, and she has extensive background supporting people after traumatic experiences.
Tracey has helped others through issues like abandonment, dissociation, domestic violence, and the emotional fallout of divorce and separation. She brings decades of practice working with diverse and marginalized communities and continues to learn about different religious and cultural backgrounds to broaden her perspective.
In sessions she focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can name difficult feelings and try new ways of relating. Sessions aim to build skills people can use outside therapy. Tracey helps clients identify patterns, practice specific tools, and repair connections that matter in daily life.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Tracey lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Tracey names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How her approaches work in online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people look at how emotions shape their relationships and reactions. In sessions it focuses on naming core feelings, understanding patterns between partners or within oneself, and practicing new ways to connect when old patterns cause pain.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and respect. The therapist offers empathic attention and follows the person’s pace so people feel heard and can explore difficult feelings without pressure.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is practical and skills-based. It helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, try small experiments, and learn tools to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as work progresses. That shared decision-making helps match the approach to the issue at hand.
Online therapy can make scheduling and attendance easier. Video calls are useful for working face to face, phone sessions work when video isn’t possible, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can support short updates or homework. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and try different formats to see what works best.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, eating and body image concerns, and many other stressors.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She combines a more directed approach with client-centered listening. That means she can offer clear steps when needed and space to reflect when that works better.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has 37 years of professional experience working with addiction, trauma, personality and mental health issues, and with clients from marginalized communities.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LPC credential as a licensed professional counselor and practices in Pennsylvania.
Can sessions be held in other languages or for international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
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