About Tracy
Tracy Foster helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, addiction concerns, and grief. Tracy offers a calm presence and straightforward tools people can use between sessions.
She holds a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential in Maine and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Florida. Tracy has eight years of clinical experience supporting people through life changes, trauma, and emotional pain.
Background and approach
She focuses on teaching coping skills and improving communication so daily life becomes easier to manage. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Tracy uses clear strategies to reduce symptoms and build new habits.
She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, try different responses, and track what works over time. Her work includes addressing addiction, panic, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness and pain, and struggles with isolation or impulsivity.
Tracy blends evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to what each person needs. She aims to help people feel more able to handle stress and reconnect with what matters to them.
How Tracy’s Approaches Work Online
Tracy commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT-style work breaks problems into small steps and teaches practical tools for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood management.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy concepts to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-based skills can help when emotions feel intense or when impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Tracy will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexibility for quick questions, between-session reflection, or ongoing support without scheduling a full call.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English