About Teresa
Teresa Rutledge is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She works with clients facing substance issues, mood disorders, grief, sleep problems, and questions about identity and intimacy. Teresa listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She uses a client-centered style that puts the client's goals first. That means the session follows what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Teresa also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to calm the body and mind. Teresa has nine years of counseling experience and practices in Georgia. She aims to create a space where clients can speak honestly about past hurt, codependency, guilt, or shame and begin to move forward.
She often helps people who have struggled with trauma, self-harm, panic attacks, or suicidal thoughts find safer ways to cope. In sessions she focuses on simple tools - breathing, coping skills, communication strategies, and steps to reduce angry or impulsive reactions. She uses motivational interviewing to boost commitment to change and psychodynamic ideas to notice repeated patterns that cause pain.
Teresa prefers working with adults and may see older adolescents in some cases. Her approach is direct but warm, aiming to help people make steady changes in daily life. She supports clients as they build self-love, repair relationships, and handle major life shifts.
How Teresa’s Approaches Work Online
Teresa blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions typically focus on identifying negative thinking, testing those thoughts, and practicing small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple breathing and grounding exercises. Mindfulness helps people notice their feelings and bodily reactions so they can respond more calmly to stress, panic, or anger.
Finding the right approach happens together. Teresa will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what methods feel most useful. She adapts tools over time, combining mindfulness, CBT, motivational questions, or psychodynamic reflections as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when video isn't practical. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking.
These options make it easier to keep consistent care, practice new skills between sessions, and adjust format as life changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English