About White Oak Counseling Center

Providing Psychotherapy since 1990

Those Served: We treat adults and adolescents. White Oak serves all without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital or economic status, or disability.

Types of Therapy: We provide individual therapy. Tripp is also available to present to your group about various psychology and relationship issues.

Teletherapy: Online therapy has grown considerably during 2020 with the COVID-19 recommendations to social distance. We have provided online therapy for years. Currently, with the state rules that pertain to my license, I am available to provide teletherapy to clients that are located in the state of Pennsylvania.

Available Hours: Day and evening weekday hours are available to meet your scheduling needs.

Payment Options: Clients have options to pay by cash, check, credit card or mobile (like Apple Pay) methods. Some insurances are accepted.

In today's volatile, healthcare environment, White Oak Counseling Center provides a comfortable, stable atmosphere. You will remain with one counselor throughout your course of treatment, who will protect your right of confidentiality.

Our clients primarily reside in Pennsylvania from Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton Counties. We work with clients from Quakertown, Doylestown, Coopersburg, Center Valley, Hellertown, Pennsburg, Perkasie, Sellersville, Allentown, Easton, Bethlehem and surrounding areas.

About Tripp

headshot of Tripp Tripp earned his M.S. in Community Counseling from Villanova University and is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania. He has furthered his interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy by earning a certification in Object Relations Theory and Practice through the International Psychotherapy Institute.

He served as a staff psychologist at Lenape Valley Foundation including the role of Director of Biofeedback and Stress Management from 1987-1994. Since 1991, Tripp has counseled students at the Perkiomen School.

Tripp is a member of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association (PPA).

His involvement in the community has included the Upper Bucks Sertoma Club and he served on the Board of Directors of the Upper Bucks Parenting Center.

Throughout his career, Tripp has presented workshops for businesses, schools, churches, and community organizations and taught psychology at Delaware Valley University as an adjunct professor.

For hobbies, Tripp enjoys guitar, snow skiing, travel, reading and home remodeling.

And, if you are wondering why he goes by Tripp - he is George L. Carey III. Being the 3rd, which is triple, it was shortened to Tripp as a nickname. The story goes that his aunt recommended adding the second 'P' to Trip.

Supporting Community

We have wanted to support graduating seniors in our community to pursue higher education. Through the years, we have donated over $9800. The general criteria for the recipients who are selected by the corresponding schools are:

A scholarship of $XXX (currently $750) is presented to a graduating senior at (Quakertown or Southern Lehigh) who is entering a field of human services including, but not limited to, psychology or social work. The student should have a grade point average of 3.0 or better and demonstrates integrity.

We have presented this scholarship since 2000 to a graduating senior at Quakertown High School totaling $7600 as of 2020.

In 2017, after moving our office from Quakertown to Coopersburg, we began presenting a scholarship to a Southern Lehigh graduating senior. This has totaled $2250 as of 2020.

The fields of study that the recipients have pursued are: Psychology, Social Work, and Speech Language Pathology.

Tripp's Approach to Psychotherapy

Tripp's approach, as you may have guessed by now, is grounded in relationship.

Our understanding of humans is that they are social in nature. We can't survive without others (if we had no one to care for us when young, we would die). Thus, how we grow, develop, learn and understand ourselves in the world is never divorced from how others interacted with us and how we interact with others. The value of having a live person as a therapist is that you can explore yourself in the context of another special relationship geared to promote that process.

Research suggests that there are some common factors that influence a good outcome of therapy. The relationship overall is a bigger factor than the specific technique that is used in many cases. That being said, there are certain techniques that may be more effective for certain concerns, but there is no one size fits all.

Ultimately, you are the biggest influence in your own change. Qualities like courage, openness and vulnerability will play a large part in how you benefit from psychotherapy. Also, your expectations and beliefs of what it can provide you plays a role. What you do outside of therapy also influences your growth, things like exercise, meditation, reading, spiritual practices, journaling and nutrition.

Skills that are considered valuable in a therapist are things like:

Being high in empathy
Being low in defensiveness
Able to tolerate strong emotions in their clients
Encourage the development of new coping skills
The ability to maintain healthy interpersonal boundaries
The capacity to gently confront clients with problematic or contradictory behaviors and attitudes

The above skills are to promote an atmosphere of honesty and openness so that the client can explore all topics be that politics, religion, sex, drugs, rock and roll, dreams, nightmares, and fantasies.

So, my theoretical orientation is with relationship oriented approaches like psychodynamic, attachment and object-oriented. Cognitive behavioral (CBT) is a part of any therapy with me since the ways we think and how we express that is ever-present. Systems theory provides added context to how we engage and behave in systems of partnerships, families, groups and cultures.

I do not promise any quick fix. It has taken us years to become who we are and there is no magic bullet for a quick fix. Yes, sometimes a few sessions are adequate depending on your goal and more often it takes longer to make real lasting change from our deeper hurts, pains and trauma. Sometimes we will focus on a symptom and other times it will be on depth and insight.

If you choose to work with me, we will bring what we each have to offer. I will work to see you as a unique person with your own combination of personality traits, life experience, views (I don't believe in seeing you as a diagnosis). I will challenge us both to bring imagination and openness to what you present in the therapy process.

About White Oak Counseling Center

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Providing Psychotherapy since 1990

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About Tripp

Supporting Community

Tripp's Approach to Psychotherapy