About Teresa
Teresa Cole uses goal-focused, practical therapies to help people find clearer ways forward. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, with 16 years of experience. Teresa keeps sessions straightforward and geared to daily life so people can use what they learn right away.
She commonly helps with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing grief, addictions, parenting strain, career changes, and challenges related to ADHD.
Background and approach
Teresa pays attention to attachment and abandonment patterns that shape how people connect with others. Teresa blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with attachment-informed work and emotionally-focused methods. She teaches coping skills, practical communication strategies, and steps for managing difficult emotions.
Sessions often include education about patterns and tools to try between meetings. Her background includes long experience helping people navigate major life transitions, blended family issues, chronic health challenges, and caregiver stress. She also addresses concerns around body image, codependency, commitment and control issues, and the stresses first responders face.
Teresa aims to create a calm, focused space where people can clarify goals and practice new habits. She works with adults on individual concerns and relationship struggles, guiding them toward more workable daily routines and better emotional regulation.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It teaches values-based actions so daily choices line up with what matters most, and it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and motivation struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to find patterns that keep problems going. It teaches practical skill-building such as thought records, behavioral experiments, and problem-solving for depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas shape how relationships are understood in sessions. They help people see how past connection patterns affect current closeness, communication, and conflict, and provide steps to shift interaction habits.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Teresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed based on progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging make short check-ins, skill practice, or brief coaching easier to fit into a busy week. These options provide flexibility so therapy can match a person's schedule and communication style.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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