SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Tess Inman, MSEd, LPC, NCC
“The trust built within a therapeutic relationship allows us to be more vulnerable, and to carry what we learn into everyday life.”
Tess Inman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of Clinical Services at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth. She specializes in couples and families, and in individuals working through relational and systemic difficulty, using the Gottman Method, Structural Family Therapy, and Systems Theory.
WHO TESS WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Tess works with adults, couples, and families. Her specialism is relational and systemic work — the difficulty that lives between people rather than inside one of them.
why work with Tess
Trust first, then the work
She stresses rapport-building as a clinical necessity rather than a courtesy: the trust built in a therapeutic relationship is what allows real vulnerability, and what makes skills learned in session transfer to everyday life.
HOW TESS WORKS
Eight approaches, and a systemic lens
Tess works from the position that therapy must be tailored to the client. Underneath the specific methods sits a systemic view — looking at how people are arranged around each other, not only at what each one is feeling.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Tess treats – who Tess sees
- Marriage & Couples
- Premarital Counseling
- Family Issues
- Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
- Anxiety
- Depression
For couples and families
Director of Clinical Services — and a clinical supervisor
“An approach to therapy needs to be tailored to the needs of the client.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Collaborative. And built on trust.
Collaborative and grounded in trust, in Tess’s description. She stresses the importance of building rapport in order to better meet a client’s clinical needs — and believes the trust that develops is what lets people be vulnerable enough for the work to transfer out of the room and into everyday life.
ABOUT TESS
Growth, grounded in collaboration
Tess Inman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Nationally Certified Counselor specializing in couples and families, as well as individuals working through relational and systemic difficulty.
She completed her Master’s in Counselor Education at Duquesne University in 2013, and since then has worked extensively with couples and families using the Gottman Method, Structural Family Therapy, and Systems Theory — helping clients improve communication, regain emotional safety, rebuild trust and intimacy, and practice healthy conflict resolution.
Her approach involves supporting growth by being grounded in the collaborative process between client and clinician. She believes the trust built within a therapeutic relationship allows people to be more vulnerable, and to transfer the skills learned in session into everyday life. She stresses the importance of building rapport with clients in order to better meet their clinical needs.
Tess believes an approach to therapy needs to be tailored to the needs of the client, and her clinical experience and extensive training span cognitive behavioral therapy, the Gottman Method, Structural Family Therapy, and Systems Theory.
Alongside her own caseload she serves as Director of Clinical Services and as a clinical supervisor within the practice. She is currently offering both in-person and virtual sessions, at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Practicing Since
MSEd Duquesne, 2013
Gottman Trained
Research-based couples therapy
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Tess Inman
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.