Appointments by secure video for anyone located in Pennsylvania, with long experience among students, faculty, and staff at the state's many campuses.
Currently accepting new clients
Request a Pennsylvania appointmentPennsylvania holds more colleges and universities than almost any comparable state, and a sizeable share of our clients here are attached to one of them: an undergraduate at a small residential college, a doctoral student in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, a staff member at a regional campus. Plenty of others have no campus connection whatever and simply want a psychologist who is not a forty-minute drive in each direction. Both are served in the same way and with the same care.
The shape of the commonwealth matters as well. Philadelphia and Erie sit at opposite ends of a long day's driving, and the counties between them are not evenly supplied with psychologists. A client in State College or Carlisle may have local options; someone an hour outside either may have none. Video levels that out, and it also keeps treatment intact when a person relocates within the state partway through a course of work, which students and working families do often.
These six areas account for most of our Pennsylvania work. Your clinician will discuss with you whether a concern fits a video format or would be better handled somewhere in person.
Unfinished reading and missed deadlines are approached through structured work on planning, time estimation, and follow-through, together with the self-criticism that tends to pile up after years of being described as careless.
An evaluation is arranged around a specific referral question, often diagnosis or documented support needs for a student. Which components require an in-person session, if any, is determined in consultation rather than assumed either way.
Seminars, presentations, and departmental meetings can become genuinely frightening. Treatment separates the fear from the setting, builds tolerance for it in graded steps, and attends to the sleep loss that usually travels alongside.
These hours give a client room to consider identity, disclosure, and how a family may respond, without the conversation circulating through a small campus or congregation. The pace and the vocabulary are yours to set.
Academic and professional exhaustion is treated as a working condition rather than a personal failing. We examine workload, recovery, and the internal standards that can make an evening of rest feel like negligence.
With both partners present, the work takes up arguments that repeat without resolving, disagreements about money or in-laws, and the slow drift that long hours produce. Both people need to be inside the state when the session runs.
Our approach is collaborative and explanatory, never strictly directive. We believe you should fully understand why a specific therapeutic strategy is being suggested, and you should always feel comfortable declining it. While our primary method is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tailored to the everyday realities of living and working in Pennsylvania, we do not offer a quick fix. Instead, after a few weeks of working together, we evaluate whether the treatment is producing meaningful progress—and we will be candid with you if it is not. Because life can be demanding, we proactively plan around busy professional seasons, travel, and family commitments to ensure these natural rhythms do not interrupt your care. We also recognize that mental health is deeply connected to your overall physical well-being. To provide comprehensive support, we can collaborate with your Primary Care Physician (PCP) and other healthcare providers. If you are consulting other medical specialists, your clinician will always discuss with you beforehand exactly what information ought to be shared to best support your care.
All psychological services for clients in Pennsylvania are provided by Dr. Lusk, so intake, therapy, and any evaluation stay with one clinician who holds the history rather than passing between members of staff.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Pennsylvania.
Clients here work with Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., the clinical director of this practice, whose clinical experience now runs past twenty-five years. Her Pennsylvania caseload covers one-to-one therapy, couples seen together, whole-family sessions, and groups, along with educational and forensic evaluation; the State of Arizona has qualified her as an expert witness. She is bilingual in English and Spanish, and a session can be held in either language.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
Pennsylvania belongs to PSYPACT®, a compact through which a psychologist granted the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) may deliver telepsychology to clients situated in any other participating state. Dr. Lusk works under that authority. It is conferred on the psychologist by the PSYPACT® Commission rather than issued state by state, and none of it depends on where you happen to keep a permanent address or which campus you attend.
In practice the authorization tracks your body. A Pennsylvania appointment assumes you are in Pennsylvania when it opens, so a term abroad, a conference elsewhere, or a summer at a parent's house in another state all change the answer, and we need the dates in advance. Students who transfer or graduate out of the commonwealth should raise it early: continuing is often possible where the new state also participates, and where it does not, the clinician will help you find care there.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Few states carry this many campuses, and our clients come from across the range. Pennsylvania State University, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, and West Chester University stand on the public side; Swarthmore College, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Villanova University on the private. On a small residential campus especially, an outside clinician keeps the work private.
Clients join from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie, and from the college towns: State College, Swarthmore, Carlisle, Gettysburg. Whether your borough has a dozen psychologists or none, the appointment arrives the same way, over a link you open when the time comes.
Yes. Pennsylvania is among the participating states in PSYPACT®, and Dr. Lusk holds the interjurisdictional authority that compact provides, which is what lets her treat a person located in the commonwealth. You can check the current roster of participating states at psypact.gov. The requirement that follows is simple enough: be here when your appointment begins.
Frequently, yes. Going home to another Pennsylvania county changes nothing at all. If home is a different state, continuity depends on whether that state takes part in the compact, so tell us your plans a few weeks ahead and we will check it. When the answer is no, your clinician will help arrange something local rather than leave the work hanging.
We do. Couples are seen together, and a family session can include a teenager with one or both parents. The practical constraint is location: everyone in the session needs to be inside Pennsylvania at the time, which occasionally means one partner joining from a private office rather than both from the same room. That gets sorted before the first meeting.
The first meeting is mostly listening. You will be asked what brought you in now, what the history behind it is, what has helped before, and what you would want to be different in a few months. Consent, privacy, and the limits of confidentiality are covered in the same hour, and you should finish it with a plain description of what the work would involve.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. The office settles any question about out-of-network arrangements with you ahead of a first appointment; it is a conversation that belongs before treatment starts rather than after. Call (844) 774-7997 and a staff member will take you through it and answer what you ask. Paperwork and scheduling live there as well, instead of inside clinical time.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
Begin with a call to (844) 774-7997 or an email to info@psychotherapy.com. The office will take a short history, answer your questions about fees, and offer times; for many clients here the workable slots turn out to be early morning or between classes.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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