Tracy Rider
Compassionate, practical therapy for stress and trauma
LMHC New York
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Anger
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Languages
- English
About Tracy
Tracy Rider is a New York licensed clinical mental health counselor (LMHC) with ten years of experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self‑esteem, and life changes.
Background and approach
Tracy meets people where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps that fit each person's situation. She uses approaches such as the Gottman Method alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR to address emotional pain and relationship patterns.
Sessions are conversational and goal‑oriented, with room to process tough memories and build new skills. Tracy adapts techniques to what feels most useful for the client.
Her background includes work supporting veterans and community counseling, plus advanced study in trauma and dissociation. This experience shapes a steady, realistic style that values safety and pacing.
She also brings a life coaching perspective that emphasizes personal agency and practical change. Tracy often helps people sort out communication problems, attachment concerns, chronic illness challenges, and responses to disaster or first responder stress.
She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. When beginning work together she focuses on a clear plan and manageable steps.
Conversations move at a pace that honors readiness and strength. The emphasis is on building skills that make daily life easier and more meaningful.
Approaches that shape online care
Tracy often blends Gottman Method ideas with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and learn new ways of relating and responding. Gottman Method concepts are used to identify harmful interaction cycles and build practical repair skills, while CBT focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for people who carry painful memories that keep causing strong reactions. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of those memories so they interfere less with daily life and coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tracy will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That choice is collaborative and can shift as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text‑based messaging. Video is good for face‑to‑face conversation and EMDR work when both clinician and client agree. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check‑ins, between‑session support, or when typing helps people organize thoughts. These formats make it easier to get consistent care across busy schedules and varied needs.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English