Terri Bassi-Cook, LPC

Terri Bassi-Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 36 years of clinical experience. She brings a client-centered approach that emphasizes collaboration, active listening, and thoughtful observation to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma, addiction, grief, parenting concerns, and other life transitions. Terri works with a broad range of issues including LGBT concerns, intimacy-related problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and family-of-origin dynamics, tailoring support to each person’s unique circumstances.

In sessions she focuses on how a person thinks about problems as much as the problems themselves, helping clients identify unhelpful beliefs and develop more accurate, useful perspectives. Her style is nonjudgmental and strengths-based - she asks questions that clarify priorities and helps clients set practical goals. Terri also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing when appropriate, combining these methods with a psychodynamic and solution-focused sensibility to address deeper patterns and immediate concerns.

Clients can expect a partnership aimed at rebuilding confidence, improving coping, and restoring a sense of self. Terri values working across identities and life stages and strives to create a respectful, accepting space where people can work toward meaningful change with guidance and support.

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Terri integrates client-centered therapy, which focuses on building a collaborative relationship and helping clients explore their values and goals in a supportive environment. This approach is useful for people facing life transitions, relationship concerns, identity questions, and emotional difficulty because it centers the client’s perspective and strengths.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a practical method that identifies unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches skills to change them. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress. Motivational interviewing is another tool she employs - this approach helps people find their own motivation to change habits or make difficult decisions, and it can be especially helpful with addictions, behavior change, and ambivalence about treatment.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Terri works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Licensed professionals can offer these approaches through remote formats, and Terri offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible and flexible for busy schedules or different comfort levels.