SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Autumn Staszak, MAEd, LPC
“Healing begins when people feel safe enough to be seen, heard, and understood.”
Autumn Staszak is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling, seeing clients in person in the South Hills and by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. In practice since 2005, she works with adults on depression, anxiety, life transitions, work-related stress, grief and loss, and women’s health — and with couples on communication, connection, intimacy, and repair after an affair. TF-CBT and Gottman Method trained.
WHO AUTUMN WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Autumn works with adults, young adults, seniors, veterans, college students, and couples. Women, men, and LGBTQ+ clients. In practice since 2005.
why work with Autumn
Safe enough to be seen
Her stated belief is that healing begins when people feel safe enough to be seen, heard, and understood. She builds the room first and the work second, because the second does not happen without the first.
HOW AUTUMN WORKS
Nine approaches, and the judgment to choose
Autumn is trained in TF-CBT and in the Gottman Method — one for trauma, one for couples. The rest get selected around the person rather than applied in sequence.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Autumn treats – who Autumn sees
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Marriage & Couples
- Abuse
- Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
- Codependency
- Grief & Loss
- Life Transitions
- Women’s Mental Health
- Workplace Stress
- Self-Esteem
For women’s health
Menopause to miscarriage — a named focus
“Healing begins when people feel safe enough to be seen, heard, and understood.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Connection first. Then the tools.
Autumn’s approach is warm, collaborative, and practical, and she is explicit about the sequence: healing happens through genuine connection, then insight, then tools that work in everyday life. Skipping to the tools is how therapy ends up feeling like a worksheet.
Her goal is a space where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change. With couples the aim is greater clarity, understanding, and healthier patterns of connection — which is deliberately not the same as staying together.
She understands that relationships can be deeply rewarding and incredibly complex at the same time. Whether you are overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, struggling in your relationship, or simply seeking growth, the work is to process, heal, and move forward with more confidence and balance.
ABOUT AUTUMN
Heard, understood, and empowered
As a licensed professional counselor, Autumn Staszak is passionate about helping adults and couples navigate the challenges that can impact emotional well-being, relationships, and overall quality of life.
She specializes in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, work-related stress, and women’s health concerns, including the emotional and life transitions that often accompany different stages of adulthood. Her goal is a supportive, compassionate space where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change.
In her work with couples, Autumn helps partners improve communication, rebuild trust, strengthen emotional connection, and navigate difficult relationship transitions. She has experience supporting couples on healthy communication, building connection and stronger intimacy, and repair after an affair — and understands that relationships can be deeply rewarding while also being incredibly complex.
Her approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and practical. She believes healing happens through genuine connection, insight, and the development of tools that clients can apply in everyday life. Autumn holds an MAEd from The University of Akron, is trained in TF-CBT, the Gottman Method and women’s health, and sees clients in person in the South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
In Practice Since
South Hills · Telehealth statewide
Depression, Anxiety & Women’s Health
TF-CBT and Gottman trainedified · Gottman trained
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Autumn Staszak
Mental Health
The Same Hill, Two Experiences: Tandem Cycling & CBT
The same hill can feel completely different to two people riding it together — for one, speed means danger; for the other, speed means fun. That gap is a central idea in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): our emotions are shaped not only by what happens to us, but by how we interpret it. CBT helps us notice those automatic interpretations and respond with more balance. Christina Binder, LSW practices in Center City Philadelphia and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Relationships
What Actually Changes in Couples Therapy
Most couples arrive at therapy still hopeful — tired of the same argument and wanting it to stop, not deciding whether to leave. With me, a session isn’t two people venting while someone nods: I give feedback and hand over usable skills, using the Gottman Method to find the pattern underneath the conflict. Ashlie Mohney, LPC works with couples in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Relationships
Codependency: When Caring for Someone Costs You Yourself
Codependency is a pattern — not a diagnosis — where your sense of self becomes tied to managing, pleasing, or rescuing someone else, and your own needs get filed under “later” permanently. It’s usually a skill that was learned somewhere and once kept you safe. Because it’s a pattern rather than a disorder, it can change. Kelly Schworn, LPC offers person-centered therapy in English and Spanish in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and across Pennsylvania.