About Teresa
Teresa Buss is a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with relationship or intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Teresa identifies as non-binary and is an LGBTQIA+ ally, and she emphasizes a respectful, person-first approach.
Her style is warm and non-judgmental. She focuses on building a trusting relationship before moving into deeper work.
Background and approach
Teresa uses breath work, body-based techniques, and image making as part of a bottom-up approach to help people create new patterns. She values compassion and steady encouragement, even when progress feels slow. Teresa draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to support change.
She pays attention to how trauma affects the body, mind, and spirit and uses practical skills to improve emotional regulation. Treatment plans are created together and reflect each person’s goals. Her background includes five years of clinical practice and a focus on trauma-informed methods.
Teresa has experience supporting people who have faced addiction, PTSD, OCD, and grief, among other concerns. She aims to help clients make small, manageable steps toward growth. People who choose Teresa can expect collaborative goal setting, hands-on techniques to shift patterns, and steady encouragement throughout the process.
Using Attachment, Mindfulness, and Narrative Approaches Online
Teresa uses attachment-based ideas to notice how early relationships shape current reactions and to build more supported ways of relating. This approach helps people who struggle with trust, boundaries, and closeness by focusing on how they connect with others.She also incorporates mindfulness practices such as breath work and present-moment noticing to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. These techniques can be used for anxiety, stress, and trauma symptoms and are practical to practice during a session or between meetings.
Narrative work is used to help people retell their experiences and create new meanings. Rewriting difficult stories can reduce shame and open paths to different choices and behaviors.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Teresa collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work visually with breath and grounding exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum over time.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Teresa commonly address?
What is Teresa's therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Teresa licensed and based?
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Which session formats are available?
How are fees and payments handled?
What steps are involved to begin therapy?
What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English