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
Addiction
What Therapy Actually Does in Recovery
In recovery, stopping and staying stopped are two different challenges. Detox, rehab, and recovery programs help you stop; therapy helps with what comes after — the reasons the substance was useful in the first place. It builds coping skills, emotional regulation, and self-understanding, and works alongside (never instead of) recovery programs and medical treatment. Nicole Duley, LPC specializes in addiction treatment in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Children & Adolescents
Tween to Teen: When Your Child Changes & You Can’t Say When
Somewhere between about ten and fourteen, many children pull away, go quiet, or get moodier — often with no event you can point to. Much of this is normal development, but not all of it. The useful thing isn’t to decide between “just a phase” and “something serious” on your own, but to know which changes are ordinary and which are worth a conversation with a professional. Caitie Beatty, LSW works with children and teens in Altoona and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Mental Health
Strengths-Based Therapy: A Kinder Approach to Hard Times
Strengths-based therapy focuses on identifying and building on the strengths, resilience, and resources a person already has, rather than concentrating only on what’s broken. It doesn’t ignore real problems — it approaches them from a place of capability and hope. Everyone who has survived hard things already carries strengths worth building on. Haley Childers, LSW uses a warm, strengths-based approach at CPA Counseling in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.