About Teresa
Teresa Robertson offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. She frames sessions around what matters most to each person and helps them find clearer ways to cope and move forward. She has practiced in personal settings since 2014 and brings a long history of work in community mental health and social services.
That background exposed her to many life challenges and taught her how day-to-day stresses affect mood and behavior.
Background and approach
Teresa completed a master’s degree in professional counseling from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1999. She also pursued additional graduate coursework in human sexuality, grief and loss, and trauma counseling to deepen her skills. Her credentials include LMHC and LCPC.
Her approach is integrative. She uses client-centered listening combined with practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and trauma-focused techniques when those fit the concern.
Teresa focuses on building collaboration in sessions. She encourages people to share what works and what doesn’t, and then tailors strategies to each person’s life, culture, and preferences. The goal is to increase insight, strengthen coping, and support clearer decision making.
She offers a straightforward way to address problems like parenting stress, workplace pressure, low self-esteem, panic, mood swings, and trauma reactions. Sessions aim to be useful from the first weeks onward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and support. The therapist follows what each person brings and encourages them to shape the work. This approach helps with feeling heard, sorting priorities, and building trust during online sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT can help with anxiety, panic, depression, and low self-esteem through structured exercises and between-session practice.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These techniques are useful when strong emotions, interpersonal conflict, or impulsive behavior get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match strategies to the person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust methods as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois
- Languages
- English