SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Crystal Fiumara, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • MS · Carlow University
  • 17 Years Experience
  • Accepting New Clients

“I provide a supportive, welcoming environment where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered.”

Crystal Fiumara is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. With seventeen years in mental health — eight of them in private practice, plus drug and alcohol treatment and in-home work with children — she focuses on helping teens and adults navigate anxiety and depression, alongside ADHD, family difficulty, and life transitions.

No program commitments
UPMC · Highmark · Cigna · Aetna · United
Teens, young adults & adults
Telehealth available statewide
In practice 17 years

WHO CRYSTAL WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Crystal works with teens, young adults, and adults, individually. Seventeen years in the field, with anxiety and depression as the stated focus.

1

People carrying anxiety or depression.

This is the particular focus of Crystal’s practice rather than one item among many. Seventeen years of it means she has seen the versions that look like competence, the ones that look like irritability, and the ones that do not look like anything from outside.

2

Teens and young adults.

Crystal came up through schools, residential programs, community services, and in-home work with children before moving into private practice. That background means she is not guessing about what a struggling adolescent’s week actually looks like.

3

People ready to do something about it.

Crystal is direct that her ideal client is motivated for change and willing to be open and honest. Her role is encouragement, support, and guidance — not supplying the motivation, which has to be yours.

why work with Crystal

Seventeen years, mostly on two things

Breadth is useful and depth is different. Crystal has spent most of seventeen years on anxiety and depression specifically — across schools, residential care, drug and alcohol treatment, in-home work, and eight years in private practice. The same two conditions, in a lot of different contexts.

What brings people in

Worry that has started making the decisions. A flatness that has outlasted the thing that caused it. A teenager who stopped being themselves. ADHD that was never addressed and has become expensive. A transition that took out whatever was holding things steady.

How she actually works

Collaborative, and specific about what that means: understanding your experience, identifying goals that actually matter to you, and developing practical strategies for moving forward. A supportive, welcoming environment is the condition for that work rather than the substance of it.

What gets different

Confidence that comes from having done something rather than from being told you can. Strengths you can name because you have used them. And insight paired with skills, which is the combination that holds once therapy ends.

HOW CRYSTAL WORKS

Five approaches, and a focused practice

Crystal works from a focused toolkit rather than a wide one, chosen deliberately for the conditions she concentrates on. Flexible and personalized within that — tailored to your needs, personality, and goals.

  • CBT
  • Solution-Focused
  • Person-Centered
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Strengths-Based

1

When worry is running things

Cognitive behavioral work on the thought patterns behind anxiety and low mood — catching them as they run, testing whether they actually hold up, and building practical strategies you can use on a difficult morning without her in the room.

2

When you know the goal and not the route

Solution-focused work for clients who can name what they want different but keep not getting there. Clarifying the actual goal, then building steps small enough to take — which is usually where things have been stalling.

3

When you are not sure you are ready

Motivational interviewing for the gap between knowing something has to change and feeling able to change it, held inside a strengths-based frame. Crystal’s stated role is encouragement, support, and guidance while you build confidence and recognize what you already have.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Crystal treats – who Crystal sees

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • ADHD
  • Family Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • Women’s Mental Health
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • College Students

For anxiety and depression

A focused practice — seventeen years on the same two things

Crystal concentrates on helping teens and adults navigate anxiety and depression. Seventeen years across schools, residential programs, drug and alcohol treatment, in-home work, and private practice — the same two conditions seen in very different settings.

“My goal is to empower clients with the insight, skills, and support they need to make positive changes.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Collaborative. And it needs your half.

Crystal’s approach centers on creating a supportive, welcoming environment where clients feel heard, understood, and respected. That is the condition for the work rather than the work itself — and she is clear about the difference.

She believes therapy is a collaborative process, which in her description means something specific: understanding your experience together, identifying goals that genuinely matter to you, and developing practical strategies for moving forward. Her ideal client is motivated for change and willing to be open and honest about what is actually happening.

Her role, as she defines it, is encouragement, support, and guidance while you build confidence and recognize your own strengths. The goal is insight and skills together — enough of both that the change holds after the sessions stop.

ABOUT CRYSTAL

Heard, understood, and respected

Crystal Fiumara has seventeen years of experience in the mental health field, including eight years in private practice, as well as experience in drug and alcohol treatment and in-home therapy for children.

Throughout her career she has supported people facing a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges, with a particular focus on helping teens and adults navigate anxiety and depression. She earned her master’s degree in Counseling from Carlow University, which provided the foundation for her clinical work and her commitment to compassionate, individualized care.

Her approach centers on creating a supportive, welcoming environment where clients feel heard, understood, and respected. She believes therapy is a collaborative process, and works with each client to better understand their experiences, identify meaningful goals, and develop practical strategies for moving forward.

Whether clients are coping with anxiety, depression, life transitions, or other challenges, her goal is to empower them with the insight, skills, and support they need to make positive changes and strengthen their overall well-being. She sees clients at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MS · Counseling

Carlow University

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

Drug & Alcohol Treatment · In-Home Therapy · School & Residential

FOCUS

Anxiety & Depression · Teens & Adults · Life Transitions

IN PRACTICE

17 years

8 years in private practice

SERVES

South Hills

via Telehealth – Pennsylvania

17

Years in Practice

8 in private practice

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Anxiety & Depression

Teens and adults

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Crystal Fiumara

  • Street Scene Spanish South Philly

    Mental Health

    It’s Okay to No Estar Bien

    In Philadelphia’s Latino community, strength and sacrifice run deep — and it’s still okay to ask for help. Therapy en español means being understood in your own language and culture, without leaving either at the door. Está bien pedir ayuda.

  • Communication Breakdown

    Couples & Marriage

    The Same Fight, On Repeat

    Most couples don’t come to therapy because the love is gone — they come because they keep having the same argument and can’t find the exit. The content of the fight rarely matters; the pattern underneath it does. Couples therapy helps you see that pattern, interrupt it, and rebuild the connection beneath the conflict.

  • Choosing a therapist

    Information

    Choosing the Right Therapist: Questions to Ask

    Choosing the right therapist can set the tone for your whole experience. The essential questions to ask — and why trusting your intuition matters.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Crystal Fiumara

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Crystal is a Licensed Professional Counselor with seventeen years in mental health, eight of them in private practice. She focuses on helping teens and adults navigate anxiety and depression, and also works with ADHD, family difficulty, life transitions, and women’s mental health. She draws on CBT, solution-focused, person-centered, motivational interviewing, and strengths-based approaches.

Yes, and with real background behind it. Before private practice Crystal worked in schools, residential programs, community-based services, and in-home therapy with children. That means she is not guessing about what a struggling adolescent’s week actually looks like, or what a family is managing around it.

Something fairly specific. You work together to understand your experience, identify goals that actually matter to you rather than ones that sound sensible, and build practical strategies for getting there. Crystal is direct that her part is encouragement, support, and guidance — and that the motivation and the honesty have to be yours. It works best when you are ready for that.

Yes. Crystal is accepting new clients at the South Hills office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with UPMC, Highmark, Cigna, Aetna, and United. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.