Chelsea Mazzotta, LMFT

she/her/hers

Founder, Owner, Clinician

Hi, I’m Chelsea!

I’m an extroverted introvert who loves working with people. In my daily life I love to cook, watch baseball, and spend time with family and friends. I’m also a professionally trained vocalist and music therapist, and enjoy singing anthems for MLB teams, the Women’s Professional Hockey League, and for the Pittsburgh Penguins. If you catch me out-of-office; I’m probably enjoying a walk around a local park, doing yard work, or getting ingredients for my next gluten-free concoction.

As a therapist, I want clients to feel they are important; and that their stories, experiences, traumas matter. My hope is that folks leave session feeling both validated and challenged; with renewed curiosities about their own process (and/or the process among the couple/family system). I also hope clients leave feeling a renewed sense of power- in that they have the capacity to make positive changes in their life.

I'm an experiential therapist, so I'll often notice, interrupt, and shift patterns in real time. I think clients can expect congruence, honesty and overt-ness, as well as a strong sense of alignment. I am also big on autonomy- clients always have total power and control over the choices they make; and I will be both supportive of these choices and curious around the "why" of a particular choice.

Throughout my therapeutic career, I’ve worked with individuals experiencing intimate partner violence, victims of sexual assault and or incest, and victims of gun violence and mass violence. I’ve also worked with couples navigating polyamory and open relationships; and those working through transitions in their relationship- such as marriage and family planning. During COVID-19, I’ve particularly enjoyed working with first responders and healthcare providers; a job includes many aspects of trauma care and management.

I want my clients to gain a sense of self-worth, increased emotional congruence, feeling better able to share their authentic self with the world; to become more self-aware and accountable; and to be better able to register their own emotional needs, and respond to emotional needs/requests of important people in their life through our work together.