Theresa Bradbury
Practical psychological help for families
- Credentials
- PA Psychologist PS 006223 L
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Theresa
Theresa Bradbury is a Pennsylvania licensed psychologist who focuses on helping families and parents navigate emotional and behavioral challenges. She draws on practical, experience-based strategies to address problems like anxiety, ADHD, depression, anger, and parenting stress. Theresa aims to make sessions straightforward and useful so parents can manage day-to-day struggles at home.
She has worked in child and adolescent psychiatric units and served as an educational consultant assessing children with diagnoses such as attention deficit disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, Tourette's, autism, intellectual disability, anorexia, depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Background and approach
That background gave her hands-on experience creating individualized school plans like IEPs and 504 plans to support a smooth return to school. Theresa spent many years as a school psychologist in Pittsburgh and later worked in other school systems. She has completed hundreds of psychoeducational assessments and can explain school testing results in plain language.
While in-person testing has been limited recently, she still helps families understand school progress and planning. In independent practice she has pursued advanced study in post-traumatic stress, anger management, depression, and ADHD for both children and adults. Theresa combines cognitive behavioral, attachment, acceptance and commitment, dialectical behavior, and client-centered approaches to match techniques to a family's needs.
With 26 years of experience in medical, educational, and personal settings, she brings practical knowledge about school systems and family dynamics. Parents looking for help with behavior, mood, or school issues will find direct guidance and clear steps to try between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online family care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when parents want practical steps to move forward. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how family relationships and early bonds affect current behavior and emotions. It can help parents understand patterns that affect child behavior and connection.Theresa approaches treatment collaboratively. She discusses different methods with families and tailors techniques to goals and priorities. Deciding on an approach is a team process where the therapist and family try strategies and adjust as needed to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit busy family schedules. These options let parents fit appointments around school and work, share observations between sessions, and access support from home. The variety of formats makes it easier to stay consistent with therapy and to use tools that fit daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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