About Theresia
Theresia Jackson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people whose lives feel overwhelming. She speaks plainly and listens first. She helps clients name what is under the mask they present to the world and figure out what to do next.
Theresia uses a mix of body-focused and talk-based approaches to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictive patterns. She often helps people make sense of relationship patterns, attachment difficulties, and codependency.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce rumination, manage emotions, and find practical steps forward. With 14 years of practice, she brings years of clinical experience to each session. Her background includes advanced coursework in marriage and family therapy and a focus on family dynamics, attachment, and relationship patterns.
Those studies inform how she looks at repeating cycles and boundary struggles. Theresia draws on Somatic methods alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, client-centered skills, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She tailors sessions to each person rather than following a single formula.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the client can handle. People work with her on many concerns including bipolar disorder, grief, parenting strain, body image, chronic pain, sexual and intimacy questions, and career stress. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver burnout.
The aim is practical change - clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and healthier relationship choices.
Approaches that connect body awareness and everyday change
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and use that awareness to reduce physical tension and trapped feelings. It can be helpful for trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and patterns that feel stuck in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches practical skills to accept difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match personal values, which helps when worry or rumination gets in the way. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns influence current connections and helps people identify repeating cycles and build healthier boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day life. That collaboration makes it easier to try techniques and adjust the plan if something does not feel right.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options let people access care without long commutes and fit therapy into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English