Message To Clients
Counseling helps individuals and families enhance their capacity to cope with specific life events or challenges such as bereavement, anxiety, depression, or relationship ending. Dr. Tekie can help you through personal crisis, navigating challenging times by developing adaptive goals for the future. We combine evidence-based practices to help individuals with specific needs to achieve an overall sense of wellbeing through psychoeducation, collaboration, and client advocacy. We have specialized interest in adolescents and young adults, and we treat adults and older adults as well.
Dr. Tekie can help you achieve better self-understanding and change long-standing patterns of behavior that may be disrupting your relationships, your well-being or work. Dr. Tekie offers a wide range of psychotherapy and counselling services in the state of Pennsylvania and deals with issues such as:
Anxiety – Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, including coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Depression – Sleep and energy disruption, overall mood disturbance, inability to enjoy yourself, and difficulty being motivated, sadness, irritability, helplessness, amongst many other symptoms
Bipolar disorder – Developing coping and preventive strategies to stabilize extreme mood swings, including manic and depressive episodes; increasing effective strategies to regulate emotions and maintain a healthy daily routine
Self-esteem – Cultivate stronger sense of self; increase assertiveness, confidence, and self-compassion
Trauma / Sexual assault – Including dealing with past sexual assault, childhood trauma, environmental trauma (e.g. witnessing/experiencing violence), PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
ADHD – Skill-building and support around organizational challenges, distracted attention, procrastination; building and maintaining healthy routines and structure
College, graduate, and medical student mental health – Specialized strategies for common issues of young adulthood, including school and career stressors; support around healthy relationships, existential concerns, drug or alcohol issues, eating disorders, anxiety, and/or depression
Academic issues – Adjusting to college; managing developmental and emotional challenges in school; balancing schoolwork and personal life
International students – Transitioning from another country, state, or city; adjusting as an international student or out-of-state student
LGBTQ and sexuality topics – Includes coming out, relating to others, identifying and communicating needs, relationships, and family issues
Life transitions – Adjusting to college, new relationships, career transitions and direction; mid-life existential, relationship, and career challenges; losing one’s drive or burn out; learning self-care, navigating cultural transitions and bicultural issues
Relationship issues – Feeling unsatisfied in your partnership; communication challenges; addressing issues of power and voice; contemplation of separation; questioning one’s place in the relationship; breakups, friendships, dating
Loss and grief – Processing the loss of a loved one, any form of grief; processing the emotional aspects of personal illness or the illness of a loved one
Stress management – Coping with stress of life and change, expectations of self and others
Medical professionals’ mental health and physician wellness – Support navigating work-related expectations and stress; addressing issues of burnout, hierarchical pressures, and vicarious trauma
Existential crises and challenges – Supportive exploration of meaning and purpose in one’s life; finding one’s path in the face of existential anxiety, dread, and feelings of meaninglessness
Adolescent mental health – Working with adolescents and parents on social, academic, and/or emotional challenges throughout the teenage years; addressing anxiety, family conflicts, peer relationships, school stress, transition to college, social media pressures, self-esteem, hopelessness about the future, and/or emotional dysregulation
Family issues – Includes helping parents with their own issues within the context of supporting children; helping young adults navigate family issues
Race & cultural identity – Exploring topics of racial, cultural, ethnic background as well as other intersecting identities as it relates to one’s presenting problems
Multicultural counseling – Exploring topics of racial, cultural, and ethnic background as it relates to one’s family origins and personal identity to address and deal with psychological, emotional and systemic issues
Group therapy – Facilitating small group therapy and helping individuals find their voice and connect with others
General expertise
Academic challenges; Adolescent mental health; Anorexia nervosa; Adjustment difficulties & disorders; Anger management; Anxiety; Binge eating disorder; Body dysmorphia; Bulimia nervosa; Career counseling; Chronic illness; Chronic pain; College & graduate student mental health; Cultural adjustment; Depression; Divorce & separation; Eating disorders & disordered eating; Existential crisis & challenges; Family issues; Gender identity & transgender health; LGBTQIA, gender, and sexuality topics; Loss, grief, and bereavement; Medical professionals’ mental health; Mood disorders; Perfectionism; Physical wellness; Premarital counseling; Race & cultural identity; Racial Trauma and Assault; Self-esteem; Sexual harassment & assault; Stress management; Social anxiety; Trauma; Work stress.
Treatment approaches
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Multicultural Counseling
Clientele
- Teenagers (11-18)
- Young adults (18-24)
- Adults (24+)
- Seniors (65+)
- Couples
- Parents
Therapy Notes
Dr. Tekie can provide you with paperwork for your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement.