Dr. Timothy Legg, Licensed Psychologist, Psych. Nurse Practitioner

The decision to seek help for issues impacting your mental health is not an easy one to make. However, when you do make that decision, you need a therapist who can connect with you as a person. I keep my caseload very small so that everyone gets the individual attention they deserve because no one likes to feel like a "number." As a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, we focus on your concerns from a holistic perspective. This is the optimal approach to address most problems, as very few challenges in life are "simple."

My approach is comprehensive and focuses on you as an individual. In addition to being a psychologist, I am a Pennsylvania state-licensed and board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP).

My office is clean, comfortable, and located in the historic Moore Building in Clarks Summit, PA. I do not see clients "exclusively online." While there may be a reason for an occasional online session, this is a rare exception- not the "norm."

By working with clients face-to-face (how we actually live our lives), we avoid many issues that online therapy has created--- issues that serve only to impede the therapeutic process. Such issues include the inability of the therapist and client to see one another's facial expressions clearly and the inability to read each other's body language (which represents approximately 70 to 90% of communication). Online therapy has also resulted in losing the experience of being "present" with another human being in real life. In-person treatment removes the problem of "the screen," which creates what has been described as a "stage" on which some clients have reported feeling compelled to "perform" for their therapist (not too dissimilar to the performance that one sees while watching a movie on television).  

In-person therapy also avoids many issues associated with technological challenges, such as the abrupt loss of (or unstable) internet connections, computer failures, and the multiplicity of privacy concerns associated with online therapy. 
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While many therapy providers are willing to see clients in the "virtual" environment exclusively, I won't. I believe that you and your concerns are important and, as such, require the dignity, respect, and presence of a living human being.