About Tecky
Rev. Tecky Rusk, LPCC, is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Ohio who offers steady, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes. She brings 23 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping individuals cope with mood swings, panic, grief, and relationship challenges.
Her style is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at helping people take workable steps forward. Clients meet a therapist who emphasizes clear communication and emotional safety.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns like attachment concerns, abandonment fears, and family dynamics that often shape problems. Conversations often include skills for managing panic, strategies for better sleep, and ways to handle caregiver stress or chronic pain impacts on daily life. Her work often addresses parenting strains, women's health issues including postpartum challenges, and workplace difficulties.
She also helps people with neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome, and with complex mood conditions including bipolar disorder. Sessions balance practical tools and values-based reflection to help people regain a sense of control. Tecky uses several evidence-based approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance-focused and cognitive methods.
She encourages pacing that fits the individual and prioritizes real-world changes over abstract talk. The aim is steady progress toward the life someone wants. People who choose Rev.
Tecky Rusk can expect clear explanations and collaborative planning. She supports clients through grief, recovery from trauma and abuse, addiction struggles, and transitions like adoption or blended family adjustments. Her goal is to walk alongside clients as they rebuild routines and coping skills.
Evidence-based approaches for online care and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, committed actions that align with those values. It helps when anxiety or avoidance makes it hard to live the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them, which can reduce panic, depression, and sleep disruption. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions in relationships and improving emotional connection and communication; it can help when attachment and relationship patterns cause distress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That choice may shift over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Please confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during work breaks or between errands. Some approaches lend themselves to brief skill practice or written exercises that fit well into online work. Licensed professionals can adapt treatments like ACT, CBT, and EFT to remote sessions while focusing on practical tools and homework that carry over into daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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