About Teresa
Teresa Kennison is a licensed professional counselor in Oklahoma with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma or loss. She also supports parents who are juggling the hard parts of caregiving.
In sessions she offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they are carrying. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent and practical steps to feel steadier.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Teresa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, grief, and relationship patterns. That means she uses approaches shown to help with symptoms and daily functioning while tailoring them to each person.
Sessions may include learning new coping skills, practicing ways to communicate, or processing painful events. She has worked across a range of concerns beyond the main focus areas, including attachment struggles, codependency, dissociation, chronic illness and pain, and issues around commitment and communication. Her experience includes supporting people with neurodiverse traits and a variety of personality-related challenges.
Theresa respects that starting therapy can feel hard. She helps people take small, achievable steps and checks in often about what is or isn't working. Over time the aim is clearer choices, fewer overwhelm moments, and stronger ways to handle relationship and life stressors.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Teresa often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing symptoms and improving daily functioning. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, behavioral experiments, and activity planning to reduce overwhelm. These tools are helpful for everyday management of worry and agitation.Another approach she applies focuses on processing trauma and loss in small, manageable steps so memories and strong emotions feel less disruptive. That work can include guided reflection, building tolerance for difficult feelings, and practicing new ways to respond in relationships. These methods are intended to reduce the hold of painful experiences and support recovery over time.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or adapt approaches based on a person's goals, current needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something is not helping.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people keep face-to-face connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work for shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English