Bailey Woolf
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- Licensed in Pennsylvania
- Accepts Cash, Aetna, Aetna - Allied Benefits, + 34 more
- Helps with ADHD, Life Transitions, + 9 more
About
My path to becoming a therapist was shaped by a lifelong curiosity about people—their inner worlds, their relationships, and their capacity for growth. I am committed to supporting clients make the changes they seek through relational and psychodynamic therapy, creating spaces where healing can happen through insight, connection, and trust.
That experience deepened my commitment to relational and psychodynamic therapy, and to creating spaces where healing can happen through insight, connection, and trust.
Whether you’re becoming a parent and noticing that your ADHD feels harder to manage, or you’re newly partnered and realizing your usual way of avoiding conflict no longer serves you—this is a space to make sense of those shifts. Together, we’ll slow down, reflect, and build new awareness.
First session
Our first session is a chance for you to share what’s bringing you to therapy and begin to get a sense of what it might be like to work together. We’ll talk about what’s going on in your life right now, any history that feels relevant, and what you’re hoping to explore or change. This is also a space to ask questions about the therapy process itself.
Strengths
I offer a warm, engaged, and collaborative style. Clients often describe me as calm, thoughtful, and present. I listen deeply and ask questions, not just to understand what’s going on, but to help you hear yourself in new ways. My communication is gentle but honest. I also believe humor, creativity, and shared humanity belong in the therapy room. My goal is to build a relationship that feels safe enough for you to explore discomfort—and strong enough to help you transform it.
Treatment methods
Relational
Relational Life Therapy (RLT): "RLT was created by internationally recognized family therapist, speaker, teacher, and best-selling author, Terry Real. [...] RLT therapists use loving confrontation to wake clients up to their negative behaviors in a direct but compassionate way. We show clients the difficult truths about how they are harming their relationships in a way that builds trust rather than resistance." Source: Relational Life Institute | https://relationallife.com/how-does-rlt-work/
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
"Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that teaches people to become their own therapists. CBT is based on Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s Cognitive Model [...] In CBT treatment, trained therapists help clients identify distressing thoughts and evaluate how realistic these thoughts are. As clients become aware of their thoughts and are able to evaluate them, they feel better. CBT therapists also work with clients on solving problems, learning new skills, and setting and achieving meaningful goals." Source: Beck Institute | https://cares.beckinstitute.org/about-cbt/#whatisCBT
Psychodynamic
"Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient’s life. Its goal is not only to alleviate the most obvious symptoms [including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments] but to help people lead healthier lives." Source: American Psychological Association (APA) | https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/01/psychodynamic-therapy
Structural Family Therapy
"Structural family therapy (SFT) is an organizational/systemic approach to family therapy developed by Argentine-born psychotherapist Salvador Minuchin and his colleagues in the 1960s. Structural family therapy hypothesizes that individual psychological issues emerge and are perpetuated through flawed systems of family relationships. Structural approaches have been shown to be effective in combating a number of personal psychological issues [...]" Source: EBSCO | https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/structural-family-therapy-sft
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
"Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) in collaboration with their colleagues at the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center beginning in the late 1970s [...] Described as a practical, goal-driven model, a hallmark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic goal negotiations" Source: Institute for Solution Focused Therapy | https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/
Location
Virtual sessions