FOUR OFFICES ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Therapy for Women in Pennsylvania
You can be capable, reliable, and holding the whole thing together — and still know that something about the way you are living has stopped working.
Women’s therapy gives you a place to understand what you are carrying, what belongs to you, what does not anymore, and what you want your life to look like when your own needs and choices are allowed into the equation. In person at four Pennsylvania offices or by secure telehealth statewide.
The Real Problem
You got good at carrying it. That isn’t the same as having to
The presenting reason is usually real and nameable — anxiety, a relationship, exhaustion, a decision. Underneath it is a quieter question: what happens when the life you have learned to manage leaves almost no room for you in it?
Who this is for
Women arrive here for different reasons
The circumstances vary enormously. The common thread is a sense that something needs to change, even when you cannot yet name exactly what.
Where it starts
You don’t have to earn the right to want something different
Most women arrive having already argued themselves out of it. Is this bad enough. Other people have it worse. I should be grateful. I am the one everyone relies on. Maybe I am just being selfish.
None of that is required. You can examine your life because something in it is not working for you, and that is a sufficient reason on its own. The point is not to hand out blame — not to a partner, your children, your parents, your job, or yourself.
It is to get clear on what you are actually experiencing, what you have adapted to without noticing, what you still want, what you no longer want, and which of it is yours to decide now.
“I know how to take care of everything. I am less sure I know how to take care of myself without feeling guilty about it.”
Where you are now
Being unsure isn’t stuck — it’s something being reconsidered
There is a stage where you are no longer entirely willing to live the old way and have no idea yet what replaces it. It is uncomfortable in a specific way — indecision, restlessness, guilt, irritability you did not use to have, several possible futures and no confidence in any of them.
That is not failure to cope. It is what reconsidering looks like from the inside, and almost everyone who reaches out is standing in it.
“Before you change anything, you need enough room to work out what you actually think.”
What it actually feels like
Fine, mostly, in a way that is hard to object to. Capable at work and hollow in the car. Snappish with the people you least want to be snappish with. Women usually apologize while describing it, which is itself part of the problem.
Why rushing it backfires
The instinct is to resolve the discomfort with a decision — leave, quit, move, commit. Decisions made to escape uncertainty tend to rebuild the same arrangement with different details. The room comes first.
The shift
From living by expectation to living by choice
Choice is not rebellion. It can mean keeping the marriage or changing it, staying in the career or leaving, continuing to care for someone or altering the terms. The victory is authorship, not a particular outcome. Four sentences that tend to change.
How it works
A clear plan — three steps
You do not need to arrive knowing what you want. Working that out is the point, and your therapist walks each stage at a pace you set
Where it goes
A year from now, your life may still be full — and feel much more like yours
It will not announce itself. What women describe is a particular Tuesday, months in, when something ordinary goes differently and they notice afterward.
A conversation you would once have rehearsed for three days, you simply had. You said no, and did not attach a paragraph of justification to it. You asked for help before resentment made you ask badly. You made a decision because it was right for you, rather than because nobody could reasonably object.
That is the whole thing. Not fireworks and not independence from everyone — the discovery that you can stay connected to the people who matter without disappearing inside the arrangement.
Progress usually shows up in ordinary moments first: saying what you mean, asking for what you need, setting a limit without a long defense, making a decision without polling everyone around you, or noticing you no longer need permission for something that was always yours to decide.
MEET THE TEAM
The therapists behind your care
The therapists below work with women across our four Pennsylvania offices and by telehealth statewide.
Amber Kottner
MA, LPC
Locations: South Hills · Telehealth
Skills: CBT, Solution-Focused, Person-Centered
Services: Anxiety, Children & Adolescents, Grief & Loss
I view therapy as a special partnership.
With more than ten years in private practice, Amber brings a warm, open, and supportive presence — an eclectic, tailored approach that helps children, teens, and adults work through anxiety, depression, grief, and life’s difficult times.
Ashley Spahn
MSW, LCSW
Locations: South Hills · Telehealth
Skills: EMDR, ERP, CBT
Services: PTSD, OCD, Anxiety
The therapeutic relationship is a partnership.
With a warm, empathetic, partnership-based approach, Ashley helps adults work through anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and life transitions — and celebrate their growth along the way.
Aubrey Revak
MA, LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor
Locations: Telehealth statewide · Shaler High School in person
Skills: Somatic Techniques, Existential, CBT
Services: Trauma Therapy, Technology Addiction, Postpartum
“Meet yourself where you are, and trust that you can grow from there.”
Hi, I’m Aubrey! I offer a compassionate, trauma-informed, and client-centered approach to therapy, creating a safe, nonjudgmental space where you feel heard and understood. Together, we’ll build on your strengths and cultivate greater self-awareness, resilience, and emotional well-being.
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You don’t have to choose between them
The version where you keep functioning impressively while becoming steadily more tired, more resentful, and less sure of yourself does not correct itself. You do not have to pick between caring about the people in your life and having a life you actually exist inside. Working out what that looks like is what the first conversation is for.