About Tracey
Tracey York is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who helps people facing addiction, trauma, relationship strain, depression, anxiety, and stress. She works with concerns around intimacy, grief, eating and body image, parenting, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. People also come to her for issues connected to LGBT matters and complex mood or personality struggles.
Tracey brings 37 years of clinical experience to the work and aims to meet people where they are.
Background and approach
Her approach blends body-focused work with talk therapy. She uses Somatic techniques to help clients notice how the body holds stress or trauma. She also uses Client-Centered methods to build a respectful, listening relationship and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Sessions are typically practical and goal-oriented, while still making room for emotion and connection. Tracey can be directive when a clear plan is needed, and more reflective when exploring feelings and patterns. She helps people learn tools they can keep using after therapy ends.
Tracey has a long history working with addiction, trauma, and complex family and relationship issues. She has supported people dealing with chronic illness, separation, and sexual concerns, and she pays attention to how culture and faith affect each person’s experience. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on real-life change.
If someone prefers online care, sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work helps people tune into how stress and trauma show up in the body, such as tension, breath changes, or restlessness. In an online session this can mean guiding gentle body awareness, breath exercises, and noticing sensations while talking about difficult memories or current triggers.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship and following the person’s pace. Online sessions use this approach to create a respectful space where the client leads the conversation and the therapist offers reflective listening and support.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety and depression. In virtual work CBT often includes setting clear goals, trying small behavioral experiments between sessions, and using worksheets or structured exercises shared during or after video calls.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to tailor methods to the client’s goals, needs, and comfort level and may shift emphasis over time if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules, mobility limits, or those who prefer remote care. Video calls let the therapist observe facial expression and body signals, while phone, live chat, and text can make it easier to fit check-ins into a day. These options let clients practice skills, receive feedback, and continue therapeutic work from home or another convenient place.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English