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Entry 187550Pennsylvania / United States

Sydney Fisher

Sydney Fisher, LPC

Pennsylvania 6 years in practice

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LPC in Pennsylvania - anxiety and addiction support

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  • ACT and DBT methods
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Motivational interviewing

About Sydney

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with six years of clinical experience, Sydney Fisher helps people navigating stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She uses practical therapy methods to address day-to-day struggles and longer-term patterns that get in the way of feeling steady.

Sydney focuses on clear goals and skills in sessions. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness approaches to help people manage symptoms and make choices that fit their values. Sessions involve learning coping skills, trying new behaviors, and talking through relationship or parenting stressors.

She works with people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and issues like panic attacks, self-harm, and substance use. Additional focus areas include body image, codependency, communication problems, eating and food-related issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and money or career worries.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Clients can expect hands-on tools such as grounding and distress-tolerance skills, motivational conversations about change, and exercises that build awareness of thoughts and values.

Sessions also address life transitions and parenting strain, helping people set boundaries and improve communication. To begin, a short intake helps identify priorities and the approaches that will be most useful going forward.

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How her approaches translate to online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can include values clarification exercises, behavioral experiments, and short at-home practice between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on teaching distress-tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills. In remote sessions this often means practicing grounding and DBT skills together and planning step-by-step ways to use them during stressful moments. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons for change and is useful for addiction and ambivalence about new habits. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That selection can shift over time as needs change and new priorities emerge. Confirm the session formats offered before booking, since the biography does not list specific delivery options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. It also allows the therapist to assign short experiential practices and follow-up exercises that fit into everyday routines, helping skills transfer from sessions into day-to-day life.

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Areas of expertise

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigue

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Client-Centered TherapyDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational Interviewing

Experience

6+ years

Listed in

Pennsylvania

Languages

English

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Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, and related issues such as body image and codependency.

What is her therapeutic style?

Her approach is practical and collaborative, using skills-based work from ACT, DBT, mindfulness, client-centered therapy, and motivational interviewing to build coping tools and clarify values.

How much experience does she have?

Sydney has six years of clinical experience working with people facing mood, trauma, and addiction-related concerns.

What are her credentials and where is she located?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Pennsylvania and practices from that state.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Does she work with international clients?

She is not currently accepting international clients.

How are sessions billed?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the urgent help numbers.

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