Find a therapist, counselor or psychologist in Pittsburgh, PA

"My goal is to empower people to make positive changes in their lives and help themselves become the person that they want to be. "

Molly Alvord is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Pennsylvania and Maryland with over 17 years of experience. Working in a variety of settings, Molly has had the pleasure of helping people of all ages and backgrounds by providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy. Her specialties include anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship issues.

Molly earned her Masters of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work. She takes a humanistic approach that involves unconditional positive regard with a blend of techniques including person-centered, motivational, solution-focused, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness to work with the client to find the methods that will fit their needs.

Molly starts where the client is and helps them explore their reasons for choosing therapy and identify their goals. Employing a variety of techniques to meet the client’s needs, she empowers her clients to use their strengths to make positive changes in their lives.  

"As a counselor, I value providing a safe and compassionate space to help clients work through and process all of life's moments."

Savannah is a Pre-Licensed Therapist pursuing her Licensure as a Professional Counselor. She has 2 years of experience in the mental health field, working with both adolescents and adults. Savannah is compassionate and dedicated to assisting clients in achieving their highest potential and being a part of their journey. She has experience working with a variety of clinical issues including grief, PTSD, depression, anxiety, life transitions, stress, and relationships.

Savannah received her Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Counseling Psychology at Robert Morris University. She is educated on a variety of therapeutic approaches including motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, person-centered therapy, CBT, and DBT. Savannah will incorporate various therapeutic approaches based on the needs of her clients.

Savannah is trained to provide an empathetic, friendly, and safe space for clients to work toward their goals. She is happy to assist and guide clients in achieving their goals and addressing concerns, whatever they may be!

"As a mental health clinician, I am committed to helping individuals learn how to build healthier relationships with themselves and others."

Tiara Wilson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with over 8 years of experience in behavioral health. She is collaborative and passionate about helping individuals identify and overcome personal obstacles. She has experience treating children, adolescents, and adults with unique concerns and diverse backgrounds. Tiara Specializes in anxiety, depression, addiction, women's issues, life transitions, work-life imbalance, & family conflicts.

Tiara earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Duquesne University. She favors an eclectic therapeutic approach that draws on multiple theoretical orientations and techniques. She understands that each individual has a unique history and that it will take different approaches to therapy to address the needs of each individual. Her primary goal is to empower her clients and help them to develop, achieve, and sustain a healthy lifestyle of wellness.

Tiara is interested in helping you become successful with your mental health journey. She wants you to accomplish your goals. Her goals become your goals just as long as they are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely), legal, and healthy.

"As a 2nd generation daughter of refugees, I empathize with the ever-evolving process of identity exploration and intersectionality."

Lindsay Mosaky is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) with over 5 years of experience in the nonprofit and social services industries. She is passionate about helping teens, adults, and seniors to address personal issues and live more freely and purposefully. Lindsay has worked with clients suffering from grief, hospice care-related issues, cultural identity issues, interpersonal relationship issues, depression, anxiety, and existentialism.

Lindsay completed her Master's degree in Clinical Social Work at Rutgers University. She is the 2nd generation daughter of Southeast Asian immigrants and has faced cultural identity challenges throughout her life. She has also navigated through chronic illness and grief within her own family system. Lindsay used an eclectic range of interventions including mindfulness, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), existential therapy (ET), and motivational interviewing (MI).

Life is a constant ebb and flow of emotions, thoughts, and feelings that we are constantly dealing with. Lindsay is here to support you in the process of recalibrating your steps and in finding the confidence to continue on in your journey forward.

Holly Umbs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who specializes in working with children and adults who have sexual, physical, and /or emotional abuse histories. Holly has also done extensive family therapy.  

Her clients have primarily had depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, substance abuse issues, and/or faulty thinking.

Holly completed her Master of Arts (MA) in Mental Health Counseling at Geneva College. She holds a Family Based Certification and a certification in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). Holly’s clients often aim to get past the past and establish healthy thinking patterns and actions. She enjoys helping her clients realize that their pasts do not have to intrude upon or control their presents.

Holly would love to get to know you on a deep, personal level and help you explore what makes you tick, and how you can live your best life. She is a great, nonjudgmental listener. Holly enjoys putting clients at ease and helping them explore realistic, achievable options to help them meet their goals. She believes that we are living in stressful times, and we can all benefit from talking out our problems with another caring, invested person. Issues from your past do not have to determine your future. With Holly you can create a better future for you together!

"As a therapist who has worked with patients with addictions, patients in the prison system, and has helped couples in their relationship or individuals with anxiety, I believe that your past doesn't define you. Let me help guide you toward your future."

Alexandra Moran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 8 years of experience in the mental health and substance use field. Alexandra is passionate about working with people who have a history of trauma and learning how that trauma has affected their beliefs about themselves or their relationships. Alexandra also specializes in helping people with addiction, anxiety, depression, anger management, and relationship issues.

Alexandra has completed her Master of Social Work degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has worked most of her career with individuals who have fallen into substance use due to their mental health symptoms. While working with this population, Alexandra has worked with many individuals who went through traumatic experiences or developed personality disorders. Alexandra helps the patient identify the importance of building off their own strengths while also identifying their own emotions and defense mechanisms. Alexandra utilizes EMDR, dialectical behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

It takes a lot of courage to acknowledge that you may need help and sign up for therapy. Alexandra is able to support you on your journey by taking a non-judgmental approach and building off of your strengths to help you get to the best version of yourself. If you are ready to sign up for therapy please schedule an appointment today!

"It can be hard to find a safe place to open up and share your life. As one that has experience with a lot of different experiences in the counseling field, I will provide a safe, comfortable place for you to share."

Heather Hodges is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 6 years of experience working with kids as young as 4, elderly clients, and everyone in between. She is driven and passionate about helping kids, adolescents, and adults overcome the hardships that life brings. Heather has a vast amount of experience working with addiction, depression, anxiety, life adjustments, and much more. She will strive to help you reach your potential and wants to meet you where you are. Heather has a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from Slippery Rock University.

Heather utilizes a solution-focused approach, focusing on creating and reaching goals in therapy to promote growth in areas the client would like to focus on. She also uses a reality approach along with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and an eclectic approach, pending on the needs of her clients.

Heather wants to meet you where you are. She is ready and able to support your needs and help you begin the therapy process. If you are ready to start, schedule an appointment with her today.

"As a person who has experienced many different cultures and interacted with individuals who come from many diverse backgrounds and lifestyles, I'm hoping that we can develop a working relationship that helps YOU achieve your goals for therapy."

Gregory Mairs is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT) who has 22 years of direct mobile therapy experience with couples therapy, individual therapy, and particularly family systems with severe trauma, abuse, systemic trauma, complex trauma, and severe mental illness. Greg has worked with families separated by war, prison, and emotional cutoff from trauma and domestic violence and abuse. He works primarily with families of children ages birth to 18, but Greg treats all ages in all family groups. There isn't a population that he hasn't worked with within a family systems approach.

Greg Mairs only recently completed his Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) at Seton Hill University following 20+ years of doing mobile therapy with various social service agencies in the Pittsburgh area. He mainly worked with the city's most needy clients in the city's most destitute neighborhoods, navigating the network of community-based services and assimilating knowledge of many of the cultural differences of the diverse ethnic population of this international city. This has allowed Greg to join with families of various ethnic backgrounds and with various disabilities ranging from deafness to serious and persistent mental illness. He is able to manage crises and shift the paradigm of treatment (say from narrative to solution focused therapy in an instant) to meet necessary life changes and developmental milestones for clients of all ages and life circumstances. Greg has been taught to use a trauma focused/feminist informed lens to deliver therapy from various theories including structural, narrative, solution focused, Bowenian systems, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotional focused, etc.  

It's a big, wiggly, unpredictable world out there. At times it may seem as though the sky is actually falling on us. Sometimes a second perspective can help when the road forward feels closed. Greg wants to help you develop the skills and tools to see a brighter future for yourself, your marriage, your family, or to simply change your world view. He can help you discover that YOU have the ability to find your own answers and plan for a happier, more fulfilling life.

"As a therapist with over 25 years experience, I am excited to begin our journey in healing and the therapeutic process of counseling."

Victoria Cruse Motter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has over 25 years of experience assisting children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of issues, including family conflict issues, anxiety, depression, ADHD, low self-esteem, sexual abuse, substance use, chronic stress, trauma and PTSD, and women’s issues. 

Victoria earned her Master's Degree in Counseling from Pennsylvania State University. She's provided counseling services in a variety of settings, including schools, autism centers, pre-schools, juvenile justice programs, and residential group homes for youth in CYS custody. She is a very personable counselor and easily develops a rapport with her clients. In sessions, Victoria is very person-centered, engaged in active listening, and genuinely cares about all of her clients. She always encourages the client to be honest and to be patient with the counseling process.

Victoria is excited to begin your journey in healing and the therapeutic process of counseling. She'll help you create a personalized treatment plan that helps you tackle the tough issues in your life with grace. 

"Hey, I'm Dominique—and I want to start off by acknowledging the courage it takes to reach out for help."

Dominique Flint is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with over 10 years of experience in the behavioral health field. She is excited to work with adults, parents, friends, and couples who are faced to manage unique challenges. Dominique specializes in treating anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, parenting issues, stress management, women's issues, racial/ethnic challenges, boundary setting and assertiveness skills, and emotional intelligence.

Dominique completed her Master's degree in Counseling degree from Youngstown State University. She approaches therapy with a profound respect for the protected space that is necessary for clients to do real transformational work. She thinks that learning about the whole person is important to understanding how they became the unique person they are. Dominique uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), among other techniques.

Dominique enjoys working with adults. She believes that building on the strength of each client will help to empower them. Dominque also believes in meeting clients where they are. Everyone deserves to be seen no matter their level of awareness, readiness, or motivation—so schedule your session with her today.

Chance Kolhmeyer is a Resident in Counseling who specializes in working with adults. A large portion of Chance’s experience has consisted of working with the college population where she has gained an extensive understanding of life experiences, transitions, and disorders within this stage of life. She has a history of working with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relational issues, suicidal ideation, self-harm, self-esteem issues, adjustment disorders, day-to-day stress, and time management.

Chance completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Applied Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology and her Master of Arts (MA) in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Geneva College. She is a National Certified Counselor (NCC). Chance has had a passion for helping others since the seventh grade and has been looking forward to working in the field ever since. She believes it is important to identify all aspects of an individual’s life that impact their wellbeing including their physical health, support systems, work or school environment, and faith/spirituality in this process.

Chance creates a warm and welcoming environment. She utilizes a variety of techniques and skills drawn from recognized therapeutic modalities including narrative therapy, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness. She takes the time to explore and educate the client on which therapy might be the best fit for them, understanding that everyone is unique, so what may work for some may not work for others. Chance feels blessed to be able to help people through life’s trials and tribulations. Throughout your therapeutic experience, it is her hope to find something that works well for you. Chance thoroughly believes in self-care, and therapy is one of the best tools for it!

"I want to understand you. We can only improve ourselves and our relationships after we share understanding of ourselves and others."

Debra Blaacker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who specializes in treating life transitions, anger, self-esteem, parenting issues, and stress in all ages. Debra has 5 years of experience in the mental health field. She has worked with a variety of people with different types of trauma, and all have had the same needs: Everyone needs support and drive when they want to make positive changes, and Debra wants to support and push her clients as needed to help them improve their quality of life.

Debra completed her Master of Arts (MA) in Sociology and her Master of Education (M.Ed) in School Counseling at California University of Pennsylvania and West Virginia University.

Debra likes to take a holistic approach and explore both internal and external factors that affect your overall health and wellbeing. She will create a personalized treatment plan that meets your specific needs, utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), applied behavioral analysis (ABA), and positive psychology. Debra knows what it's like to feel alone, and she knows how relieving it is to find someone who actually understands and gives time and space to learn, think and grow. Let her be there for you.

"As a Licensed Social Worker, I understand how systems within our society impact our lives and how to assistance changing them."

Michelle is a Licensed Clinical Certified Social Worker (LCCSW) in Maryland and Pennsylvania. She is passionate about educating people about domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Michelle works with adults with anxiety, depression, along with those with trauma.

Michelle received her Bachelor’s degree from Shippensburg University and Master’s degree in Social Work from Indiana University. Michelle uses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) approach in treatment along with other therapeutic interventions.

We all go through challenges in life. Michelle is confident that she would be able to support you on your journey to gain new perspectives that allow you to cope with life struggles. If you are ready to do the work, schedule an appointment with her today.