SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Jaye Sobieski, MS

  • Pre-Licensed Counselor
  • EMDR Trained
  • NCC · National Certified Counselor
  • Accepting New Clients

“Each person holds valuable insights into their own healing.”

Jaye Sobieski is a pre-licensed mental health counselor at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She works with teens and adults on trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief and loss, emotional abuse, life transitions, and self-esteem, with particular focus on LGBTQIA+ clients, disability, and neurodivergence. She is EMDR trained and practices under supervision.

No program commitments
9 insurance plans accepted
Teens, young adults & adults
Telehealth available statewide
EMDR trained · under supervision

WHO JAYE WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Jaye works with teens, young adults, and adults, individually. She is a pre-licensed counselor practicing under the supervision of Tess Inman, LPC, NCC, which means your care is reviewed by an experienced clinician behind the scenes.

1

People carrying something that happened.

One event or a long stretch of them. Jaye is EMDR trained, which means the work can target what the memory still does to you in the present rather than requiring you to narrate all of it.

2

LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients.

Identity, disability, and being neurodivergent in rooms not built for it. This is a stated focus of her practice, not a line on a list — you will not spend the first session explaining the basics of your own life.

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Teens and young adults.

Anxiety, school and academic pressure, self-esteem, figuring out who you are. Jaye works with adolescents as well as adults, and treats what a young person brings as the actual subject.

why work with Jaye

You already know more than you think

Maybe something happened and you have not found your footing since. Maybe you are tired of managing how much of yourself a room can take. Jaye works from the belief that you hold real insight into your own healing — her job is helping you reach it, not supplying it.

What you came in with

A reaction that arrives before you can think. Places you have quietly stopped going. The exhaustion of translating yourself for people who are not trying to understand. Something that happened and will not stay in the past where it belongs.

How she actually works

Collaborative, and genuinely so — Jaye starts from what you already understand about yourself and builds out. Nonjudgmental is the word she uses, and in practice it means you will not be managing her reaction while you say the hard part. When trauma is what you came in with, EMDR gives you a route that does not require retelling everything.

What gets different

The reaction loses its grip. Places you avoided become available again. You stop running a calculation about how much of yourself is acceptable in a given room. What replaces it is not certainty, exactly — it is footing.

HOW JAYE WORKS

Ten approaches, chosen for you

Jaye is trained across a wide range of approaches and chooses based on what is actually in front of her. Two people with the same diagnosis often get very different work.

  • EMDR
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • DBT
  • Somatic
  • Mindfulness-Based
  • Solution-Focused
  • Existential
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Person-Centered & Strengths-Based

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When the past is still here

EMDR is the primary tool here — a structured way of processing a distressing memory so it stops carrying the same charge today. It requires relatively little talking about detail, which is part of why it suits people who cannot face a full retelling. Somatic work sits alongside it when the response shows up in the body first.

2

When the thinking is the problem

Anxiety, depression, the commentary that will not quiet down. Largely cognitive-behavioral: catching the pattern in motion, testing whether it holds, building something you can use at 2am without her in the room. Held inside a strengths-based frame, so it is about clearing what is in the way rather than cataloging what is wrong with you.

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When the question is who you are

Identity, disability, neurodivergence, or distress that arrives faster than you can think. DBT skills give you something concrete for riding out the intensity. Internal Family Systems and existential work both have room for this — getting curious about the parts of you in conflict rather than picking a winner, and taking the larger questions seriously instead of treating them as a symptom.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Jaye treats – who Jaye sees

  • Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • ADHD
  • Grief & Loss
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
  • Codependency
  • Life Transitions
  • LGBTQ+
  • Disability & Neurodivergence
  • School / Academic
  • Workplace Stress
  • Chronic Pain
  • Self-Esteem
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • LGBTQ+
  • College Students

For trauma

EMDR therapy — a route that does not require retelling

A structured approach to processing distressing memories so they stop carrying the same charge in the present. It involves relatively little talking about detail. Jaye is EMDR trained and works at a pace built with you.

“Healing is possible with the right mindset and a thoughtful, personalized plan.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Collaborative. Not prescriptive.

Jaye starts from a specific premise: you already hold valuable insight into your own healing. That is not a compliment — it is a working method. The sessions are built to get at what you already know and make it usable, rather than handing you a framework and asking you to fit inside it.

What stays constant is the room itself. Compassionate and nonjudgmental, which in practice means you are not managing her reaction while you say the difficult part. For clients who are LGBTQIA+, disabled, or neurodivergent, that matters in a specific way: the basics of your life are not up for explanation before the work can start.

From there it is practical. Finding the strengths already in play, building tools that fit your actual circumstances, and — when trauma is what brought you in — using EMDR to reduce what the memory still does to you now. She believes healing is possible with the right approach and a plan made for you specifically.

ABOUT JAYE

A space where you feel seen, supported, and respected

Jaye Sobieski brings a collaborative and empowering approach to therapy, guided by the belief that each person holds valuable insights into their own healing. She creates a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where clients feel seen, supported, and respected.

She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh and is a National Certified Counselor, trained in EMDR therapy. Her background includes work with people navigating some of the harder transitions — identity development, emotional recovery, and the aftermath of trauma.

Her clinical focus centers on trauma, grief, LGBTQIA+ concerns, disability, and neurodivergence, alongside anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional abuse, and self-esteem. She describes her ideal client as someone struggling to find footing after one or many traumas, looking to use EMDR, DBT methods, or similar approaches to find a route back to a workable normal.

By helping clients recognize and build on strengths they already have, Jaye supports the development of practical tools for growth. She works with teens and adults, in person at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania, and practices under the supervision of Tess Inman, LPC, NCC.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MS Clinical Mental Health Counseling

University of Pittsburgh

CERTIFICATIONS

EMDR Basic · NCC

ALSO DRAWS ON

DBT · Somatic · IFS · Existential · Motivational Interviewing

FOCUS

Trauma · LGBTQIA+ · Disability & Neurodivergence

IN PRACTICE

3 years

Supervised by Tess Inman, LPC

OFFICES

South Hills · Telehealth

Aetna · BCBS · Cigna/Evernorth · Highmark · Optum · UMR · UHC

EMDR

Trained

Plus DBT, IFS and somatic work

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Trauma, LGBTQIA+ & Neurodivergence

A combination rare in this region

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Jaye Sobieski

  • Patient Zero

    Mental Health

    What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection

    Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.

  • woman lost in thinking about to do items shown on the image

    Anxiety

    When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules

    Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.

  • Accessibility

    Information

    CPA Counseling Accessibility Statement

    Our commitment to an accessible website — WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard operability, high contrast — and a direct contact if you encounter any barrier.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Jaye Sobieski

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Jaye is a pre-licensed mental health counselor who works with teens and adults on trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief and loss, emotional abuse, life transitions, and self-esteem. She has a particular focus on LGBTQIA+ clients, disability, and neurodivergence. She is EMDR trained. Alongside that she draws on CBT, DBT, IFS, somatic and mindfulness-based approaches — skills learned in her graduate program and through supervision rather than separate formal certifications.

EMDR is a structured method for processing distressing memories so they stop carrying the same charge in the present. It involves guided attention while you hold the memory in mind, and it requires relatively little talking about detail — which is why it suits people who cannot face a full retelling. It works well for many people and is not the right fit for everyone. Jaye will talk through whether it suits your situation before starting.

Jaye is a pre-licensed counselor, which means she provides therapy under the supervision of Tess Inman, LPC, NCC at CPA Counseling. She holds a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and is a National Certified Counselor. In practice this gives you a dedicated, engaged therapist whose work is reviewed by an experienced licensed clinician behind the scenes.

Yes. Jaye is currently accepting new teen and adult clients at the South Hills office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with Aetna, Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and Evernorth, Optum, UMR, and UnitedHealthcare. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.