Chelsea Mazzotta, LMFT

she/her/hers

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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 Professional Women’s 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 in the therapy room. 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 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; positions that often include holding and witnessing trauma in their daily routines.

Through out work together, my hope is that clients gain a sense of self-worth and increased emotional congruence; feel better able to share their authentic self with the world; become more self-aware and accountable; gain awareness of their own emotional needs; and become more able to respond to the emotional needs/requests of important people in their lives.