Bryn Mawr, PA office & VirtualTracy van der Zwan, LCSW
Bryn Mawr Mental Health and Wellness
Tracy supports teens, young adults, adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, workplace stress, and life transitions through compassionate therapy focused on growth, resilience, and meaningful connection.
Services
Tracy Provides
Tracy offers a range of therapy services tailored to support your unique needs and goals.
Couples
Therapy
Helping couples strengthen connection, communication, and understanding.
Anxiety &
Stress Therapy
Helping reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm.
Life Transitions
Therapy
Compassionate support during life’s most challenging transitions.
Teen & Young
Adult Therapy
Support for identity, growth, relationships, and life transitions.
Career & Workplace
Stress Counseling
Building resilience, confidence, and professional fulfillment.
Depression
Therapy
Helping you reconnect with purpose, energy, and hope.
About Tracy van der Zwan
Tracy van der Zwan is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist whose background is as distinctive as her clinical approach. She holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and a Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr College of Social Work and Social Research. She also supervises graduate-level counseling students, bringing the same rigor to mentoring the next generation of clinicians that she brings to her own practice.
Tracy’s unusual combination of business training and clinical expertise gives her a particular fluency with the pressures that high-achieving individuals, professionals, and families navigate — the kind that don’t always fit neatly into a diagnostic category but are no less real for it.
Areas of Focus
Tracy works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families, and has developed particular depth in the relational and transitional challenges that tend to bring people to therapy:
- Couples and family therapy — navigating conflict, improving communication, and deepening connection
- Relational dynamics — peer relationships, family conflict, and the interpersonal complexities of personal and professional life
- Workplace stress — navigating difficult dynamics, leadership pressures, and professional identity
- Life transitions — career changes, relationship shifts, identity, and the moments that ask us to redefine ourselves
- Adolescent and young adult development — identity, autonomy, peer struggle, and the transition to adulthood
- Anxiety, depression, and mood-related concerns
- Family conflict and communication
Approach to Therapy
Tracy takes a holistic, integrative approach to therapy — one grounded in the belief that lasting change requires understanding the whole person, not just the presenting problem. She works to create a space that is genuinely safe and nonjudgmental, where clients can explore difficult feelings, examine unhelpful patterns, and begin to
move forward with greater clarity.
Her style is characterized by empathic listening, thoughtful validation, and the kind of curious, insightful questioning that helps clients see themselves and their situations in a new light. She draws from a range of evidence-based frameworks, tailoring her approach to each individual’s needs, goals, and pace — whether that calls for deeper exploratory work or more targeted, practical strategies.
Life Transition & Career Coaching
In addition to psychotherapy, Tracy offers life transition coaching and career management coaching — a natural extension of her business background and clinical expertise. For clients who are navigating professional crossroads, re-evaluating their career trajectories, or managing the emotional weight of significant life changes, Tracy brings a uniquely integrated perspective that bridges the personal and the professional.
Who Tracy Works With
Tracy sees clients across a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and life circumstances. She works with individuals, couples, and families, and has extensive experience with:
- Teens and adolescents navigating identity, relationships, and academic pressure
- Young adults building independence and a sense of self
- Couples seeking to strengthen or repair their relationship
- Professionals managing workplace stress and career transitions
- Families working through conflict and communication challenges
- Adults at any stage of life facing transitions, loss, or relational difficulty
Available In-Person & Virtually
Tracy sees clients in person at the Bryn Mawr, PA office on the Main Line and via secure HIPAA-compliant teletherapy throughout Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr Mental Health and Wellness is a fee-for-service, out-of-network practice. Upon request, patients are provided a detailed superbill with the diagnostic and procedure codes needed to seek reimbursement from their insurance carrier.
Ready to Get Started?
New patients are currently being accepted. Most are seen within one week of first contact.