About Teresa
Teresa Syversen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, addiction, grief, and mood concerns. She practices from the Oregon coast and works with a wide range of challenges including anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship or parenting strain. Teresa keeps language simple and direct so visitors can quickly understand what to expect in sessions.
Her approach is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversations to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Teresa blends client-centered care with practical cognitive-behavioral techniques and trauma-informed methods to address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns. Sessions focus on concrete tools and honest conversation. Teresa uses motivational interviewing to help clarify goals and increase readiness for change.
Dialectical behavior skills are introduced when stress, emotion regulation, or anger become barriers to daily life. She pays attention to past physical or emotional trauma and how that history shows up now. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress unfolds, with the client helping to set priorities and pace.
Teresa aims to make the work feel manageable and relevant to real life. People can expect a collaborative process that balances skill-building with listening. Teresa supports steps toward improved coping, clearer thinking, and healthier relationships.
If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady guidance and practical strategies.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Teresa uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and understanding. This approach focuses on your goals and values, helping shape conversations so they feel relevant and respectful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can reduce intense reactions and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa collaborates with people to decide which strategies fit best for their needs and preferences. Together they set goals, try different tools, and adjust the plan as progress is observed so the approach stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Chat and text can support brief check-ins, skills practice, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English