Robert Tierney (He/Him)

Licensed Professional Counselor
Accepting Clients

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than three decades of experience working with individuals, couples, and families.

Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family

About My Clients

I work with couples who feel stuck in the same arguments, emotionally disconnected, and afraid their relationship is slipping away. I help partners recognize the hidden patterns driving conflict in real time so they can interrupt them before resentment deepens. Many couples experience change not because they learn something new, but because they finally understand what has been happening beneath the surface all along.

My Background and Approach

Imagine this: The same conversation that used to turn into a fight … now becomes a moment of your understanding. The same trigger that used to create distance … now becomes your opportunity for connection. You stop walking on eggshells. You stop guessing what your partner means. Additionally, you no longer feel isolated in the partnership. And instead—you start feeling like a team again. If you’re ready to stop spinning in circles and actually change the way your relationship works, I invite you to take the first step. Schedule a Relationship Breakthrough Call where we look at what’s been keeping you stuck—and how this process is the right fit for you. Because it is possible to have the relationship you desire. It's merely the opposite of a pattern that you haven't yet broken.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

My work helps couples and partners recognize frustrating patterns in real time, understand the emotional needs underneath them, and learn how to reconnect before resentment becomes permanent. When couples finally feel heard instead of defended against, real change becomes possible. If your relationship feels stuck, strained, or emotionally disconnected, this may be the moment to begin changing the pattern instead of repeating it.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Addiction Counseling Attachment Theory Couples Counseling
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Anger Management Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Collaborative Couple Therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Family Systems
  • Family Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • Intervention
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy
  • Relationship Counseling

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Marriage Counseling
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Humana
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Geisinger Health Plan
  • Independence Blue Cross
  • Quest
  • Capital Blue Cross
  • Carelon Behavioral Health
  • Anthem EAP
  • The Health Plan
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Christianity
  • Judaism

At A Glance

  • Experience: 37 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $75 - 200/session

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