About Teresa
Teresa Cole is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 16 years of experience. She practices from California and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, grief, addiction-related struggles, and parenting concerns. Teresa uses a somatic-informed perspective alongside talking therapies to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.
Her work tends to be practical and goal focused. She listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and behavior, then helps clients learn small skills they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Teresa blends approaches to match a person’s needs, drawing on methods that address thoughts, emotions, and bodily responses. Teresa has experience with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, attachment wounds, blended family stress, chronic illness and pain, caregiver strain, and issues around intimacy and commitment. She also supports people navigating career decisions, identity and LGBT-related concerns, and first responder stress.
Sessions typically mix conversation, skill practice, and attention to physical cues that show up in the body. Teresa offers psychoeducation and tools for coping, and helps clients set realistic, step-by-step goals. The focus is on making steady progress, not quick fixes.
Her credential is LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Teresa works in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, clients choose the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
How Teresa’s Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to physical sensations and how the body holds stress. Online sessions can include guided body awareness and breathing practices to help people notice tension and learn calming routines.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-based actions. It pairs well with somatic work by naming thoughts and feelings and then choosing steps that move life forward.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current connections. In online sessions, the therapist looks for patterns in relationships and helps clients practice new ways of relating and communicating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize body-centered exercises, ACT skills, attachment exploration, or a mix of methods.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, and health needs while still accessing licensed professionals and therapeutic support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English