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Pawsitive Bond Services
Grief Coach for Pet Loss
At Positive Intentions DBA Pawsitive Bond, we understand the profound bond between pets and their owners. Our specialized grief coaching services support individuals navigating the heartache of losing a beloved pet. We offer compassionate listening, personalized coping strategies, and a safe space to express your feelings. Whether you need help processing your emotions, creating memorials, or finding ways to honor your pet’s memory, our experienced coaches guide you on your healing journey. You don’t have to face this alone—let us help you find peace and comfort during this difficult time.
Emotional Support Animal Assessment
We conduct a virtual assessment to evaluate your need for an Emotional Support Animal (ESA) and to determine if you meet the criteria for an ESA letter, as defined by relevant federal and state laws. Our assessment is conducted by licensed professional counselors in the state of Pennsylvania.
Trauma & Identity-Related Services
Trauma counseling is a specialized form of therapy aimed at helping individuals recover from the psychological and emotional effects of traumatic experiences. It provides a safe environment for clients to process their trauma, manage symptoms, and develop healthy coping strategies. The goal is to rebuild a sense of safety, trust, and empowerment, enabling individuals to move forward in a healthier and more resilient manner.
Religious Trauma
Support for individuals healing from harmful or fear-based religious experiences, including shame, control, spiritual abuse, or chronic guilt. Therapy focuses on rebuilding safety, self-trust, and personal values while processing the impact on identity, relationships, and emotional well-being.
Adoption Trauma
Support for adoptees and families navigating the emotional layers of adoption, including loss, attachment wounds, identity questions, and complex family dynamics. Therapy helps clients process grief, strengthen secure connection, and build coping tools for long-term resilience.
Sexual Assault Trauma
Trauma-informed support for individuals healing from sexual assault and related violations of safety and trust. Therapy focuses on restoring a sense of control, processing traumatic memories, reducing shame and self-blame, and rebuilding emotional and physical safety at each client’s pace.
Generational Trauma
Support for individuals and families impacted by patterns of trauma, stress, and survival behaviors passed down across generations. Therapy focuses on increasing awareness, strengthening emotional regulation, and breaking unhealthy cycles to support healing, resilience, and healthier relationships.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Trauma-informed support for individuals affected by emotional, psychological, physical, or financial abuse in relationships. Therapy prioritizes safety, empowerment, and recovery while helping clients rebuild self-trust, boundaries, and a sense of stability.
Grief & Sudden Loss
Collaborative support for individuals navigating grief in all forms, including sudden or unexpected loss, anticipatory grief, and major life changes. Therapy provides space to process complex emotions, honor the loss, and build practical coping tools and supports over time.
Medical & Chronic Illness
Support for individuals and families adjusting to serious diagnoses, ongoing symptoms, and the emotional toll of medical care. Therapy focuses on stress management, identity shifts, grief related to health changes, and building sustainable coping skills and resilience.
Specialized Modalities
Our clinicians use evidence-based and integrative approaches, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT-informed skills, Polyvagal-informed care, somatic techniques, and cognitive-behavioral strategies. These modalities are applied across individual, couples, and family therapy, supporting a wide range of concerns including relationship challenges, communication difficulties, emotional regulation, life transitions, and personal growth. We provide affirming care for diverse relationships, including same-sex and nontraditional partnerships.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that has been effective in reducing symptoms of PTSD that have developed after experiencing a variety of traumatic events including child abuse, combat, rape and natural disasters.
Trauma-Focus CBT
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a specialized therapy that addresses the mental health needs of children families who have experienced early trauma. It is effective in treating post-traumatic stress and mood disorders resulting from sexual abuse, physical abuse, violence, or grief. TF-CBT involves non-offending parents or caregivers and incorporates principles of family therapy.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapeutic approach that views the mind as a system of parts—protective managers, reactive firefighters, and vulnerable exiles—guided by a core Self characterized by calm curiosity and compassion. Through compassionate, nonjudgmental dialogue, individuals learn to unblend from their parts and access Self to heal wounded experiences, reduce inner reactivity, and restore inner harmony. By recognizing each part as a protective, often well-meaning voice rather than a problem to be erased, IFS promotes self-leadership, emotional balance, and lasting well-being.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach that combines mindfulness practices with skills in four modules—distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and core mindfulness—to help people manage intense emotions, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and build healthier relationships. It emphasizes balancing acceptance with change, using skills training, individual therapy, and coaching to promote resilience, self-awareness, and lasting emotional well-being. DBT is widely used for emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and certain mood and personality disorders.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory-informed therapy focuses on how the autonomic nervous system influences emotions, behavior, and trauma responses. By promoting safety, co-regulation, and social connection, it helps clients regulate arousal through practices that engage the ventral vagal system, calm the fight–or–flight response (sympathetic), and, when needed, gently address shutdown (dorsal vagal). The approach emphasizes conscious body awareness, paced exposure, and grounding techniques to improve nervous system flexibility, reduce reactivity, and support healthier emotional and relational functioning.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy is a body-based approach that helps you understand and work with the way stress, anxiety, and trauma show up in your nervous system. Instead of focusing only on thoughts, somatic work gently builds awareness of sensations (tightness, racing heart, numbness, etc.) and teaches practical skills to regulate and feel safer in your body. This can support improved emotional balance, reduced reactivity, healthier boundaries, and a stronger sense of connection to yourself and others. Somatic therapy is often helpful for anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, and relationship triggers.
Common MH Concerns We Support
Anxiety Disorders
Support for individuals experiencing excessive worry, panic, avoidance, or chronic stress. Therapy helps clients understand anxiety patterns, strengthen emotional regulation, reduce reactivity, and build practical coping tools for daily functioning and relationships.
Depressive Disorders
Support for individuals experiencing persistent sadness, low motivation, emotional numbness, or loss of interest in daily life. Therapy focuses on improving mood stability, strengthening coping skills, addressing negative thought patterns, and rebuilding connection to self, relationships, and meaningful activities.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Support for individuals struggling with intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, or mental rituals. Therapy focuses on reducing the impact of obsessions and compulsions, increasing tolerance of uncertainty, and strengthening skills that support long-term symptom management.
Bipolar Disorders
Support for individuals managing mood fluctuations, emotional intensity, and life disruptions associated with bipolar disorders. Therapy focuses on insight, mood monitoring, routine stabilization, coping skills, and coordination with psychiatric care when appropriate.
Personality Disorders & Maladaptive Personality Traits
Support for individuals impacted by long-standing personality patterns that affect relationships, emotional regulation, identity, and stability. Therapy focuses on increasing insight, strengthening boundaries, improving communication, and building healthier coping strategies—especially when relational conflict, reactivity, or chronic shame/avoidance is present. This can include work related to narcissistic, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive traits, depending on the client’s needs and goals.
Stress & Burnout
Support for individuals experiencing chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, overwhelm, and reduced motivation related to work, caregiving, or life demands. Therapy focuses on restoring balance, strengthening boundaries, improving coping strategies, and rebuilding energy, clarity, and resilience.
Higher-Intensity MH Concerns We Support
Some clients come to therapy with long-standing symptoms, multiple overlapping stressors, or patterns that significantly impact daily functioning and relationships. Our clinicians are equipped to support higher-intensity outpatient needs through structured, skills-based care, emotional regulation support, and collaborative coordination with psychiatry or other providers when appropriate.
Personality-Related Patterns
Support for individuals whose long-standing emotional, relational, or behavioral patterns impact self-esteem, relationships, and coping. Therapy focuses on increasing self-awareness, strengthening boundaries, improving emotional regulation, and building healthier interpersonal skills.
Complex Mood Presentations
Support for individuals experiencing intense, fluctuating, or persistent mood symptoms that affect daily functioning, relationships, and emotional stability. Therapy focuses on improving insight, regulation skills, and consistency in routines and supports.
High-Conflict Relationships & Attachment Disruptions
Support for individuals and couples experiencing chronic conflict, trust difficulties, emotional reactivity, or insecure attachment patterns. Therapy focuses on improving communication, emotional safety, and relational stability.
Psychosomatic & Stress-Related Physical Symptoms
Support for individuals experiencing physical symptoms linked to chronic stress, anxiety, or emotional distress (such as headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, or pain). Therapy focuses on mind-body awareness, stress reduction, and emotional regulation.
Dissociative Symptoms & Trauma-Related Detachment
Support for individuals experiencing emotional numbness, disconnection, depersonalization, derealization, or “shutting down” in response to stress or trauma. Therapy focuses on increasing grounding, safety, and present-moment awareness.
Anxiety with Significant Functional Impairment
Support for individuals whose anxiety interferes with work, school, relationships, sleep, or daily routines. Therapy focuses on reducing avoidance, strengthening coping skills, and restoring confidence in day-to-day functioning.
Relationship Services
Our relationship services provide compassionate support for couples and individuals seeking to improve their connections and communication. We offer tailored counseling sessions that address a variety of issues, including conflict resolution, intimacy challenges, and trust rebuilding. Our trained therapists create a safe environment to explore feelings, enhance understanding, and foster healthier relationships. Whether you're navigating a difficult phase or looking to strengthen your bond, our services aim to promote healing and growth in your relationships.
Pre-marital Counseling
A supportive space for couples to strengthen their foundation before marriage by improving communication, clarifying expectations, and addressing potential stress points early (finances, boundaries, family dynamics, intimacy, and conflict style). Sessions focus on practical skills, shared values, and creating a plan for a healthy long-term partnership.
Marriage & Couples Counseling
Marriage & Couples Counseling supports partners who feel stuck in recurring conflicts, miscommunication, distance, or trust concerns. We help you slow things down, understand the patterns driving disconnection, and build practical tools for healthier communication, boundaries, and repair. Whether you’re navigating “growing pains,” resentment, life transitions, or rebuilding after a rupture, our goal is to strengthen emotional safety and create a more secure, connected relationship.
Consensual Non-Monogamy & Open Relationships
Affirming, nonjudgmental support for individuals and couples in consensual non-monogamous, open, or swinging relationships. Therapy focuses on communication, boundaries, trust, emotional safety, and navigating jealousy, expectations, and relationship agreements in ways that support healthy, respectful connections.
Sex Therapy
Sex therapy is a valuable tool for anyone looking to improve their satisfaction and relationship with sex and pleasure. It can help individuals identify and work through challenges such as low sex drive, pain during sex, and difficulty having an orgasm. If you're looking to improve your sexual well-being, sex therapy may be a great option for you or you and your partner.
Co-Parenting Counseling
Co-Parenting counseling is centered on helping parents develop new communication techniques, regain balance in their lives, manage their emotions, and discover innovative parenting strategies. Positive Intentions, LLC, provides parents with tools to set healthy boundaries and develop conflict resolution skills. This helps parents avoid revisiting the past, allowing them to concentrate solely on co-parenting.
Family Counseling
Family counseling services aim to help families improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen relationships. This involves working with licensed therapists to address a range of issues such as parent-child conflicts, marital problems, financial stress, and major life transitions. The goal is to foster a supportive environment that promotes healthy dynamics and emotional well-being within the family unit.
A Little Help From Friends
Clinical Supervision
We provide clinical supervision for graduate students seeking supervision for internships and practicums, as well as for master's level clinicians in need of supervision hours to meet licensure requirements. Our clinical supervisor is available to supervise clinicians in Pennsylvania.