About Theresa
Theresa Kibbe is a licensed professional counselor with 21 years of experience in South Carolina. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, eating concerns, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She emphasizes practical steps and respects each person’s experience.
Theresa believes people are experts in their own stories and brings that perspective into sessions. She helps clients notice strengths and use them to manage stress, grief, anger, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and real-world skills. Her approach mixes evidence-based methods that target thoughts, body sensations, and past events. Theresa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also uses EMDR and somatic approaches to work with how trauma is held in the body. In sessions she aims to create a straightforward plan you can try between meetings. That plan might include coping tools for overwhelming feelings, ways to handle cravings, or exercises to improve eating and body image.
Progress is tracked in plain terms so people can see change. Theresa’s background includes two decades of counseling work in South Carolina settings. She works with a range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, family of origin issues, first responder stress, and forgiveness.
Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on practical change.
Using EMDR, CBT, and Somatic Work Online
Theresa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT often includes short exercises and homework to practice new habits between sessions. EMDR is used to process traumatic memories through structured eye movement or similar techniques and can reduce the intensity of distressing memories. Somatic therapy focuses on bodily sensations and how trauma shows up in the body, offering movement and breathing exercises to help regulate emotions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Theresa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will discuss options, try things out, and adjust the plan if something isn’t working for the client.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling busy lives. Video calls allow full face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work for quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to keep regular appointments, try techniques between sessions, and get steady support from a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English