About Theresa
Theresa Yu is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oklahoma. She brings nine years of experience and aims to shape therapy around each person’s needs. Theresa speaks English and Mandarin and uses practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
She favors straightforward work that gives people tools they can use right away. Theresa blends approaches like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused listening.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps, problem solving, and building new ways of coping with daily challenges. Theresa has a background in school and community settings, foster and adoptive services, and behavioral health work. That range informs her way of helping parents, caregivers, and individuals who face trauma, attachment concerns, or developmental differences.
She also supports people dealing with grieving, addiction, bipolar mood challenges, and burnout. Her style is warm and direct. She offers guidance, asks practical questions, and helps people try small changes that add up.
Theresa encourages clients to set realistic goals and track progress between meetings. Theresa has worked in telehealth, home-based, and office settings. She combines life experience as a parent and host to exchange students with clinical skills to meet everyday struggles.
People who want a collaborative, goal-focused approach often find this style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Theresa commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas when working online. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and feel safe with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will discuss goals and preferences and together decide what methods fit best. That collaborative process may include trying different tools and tracking what helps over a few sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is helpful for brief check-ins or coaching between meetings. These options help people fit sessions around work, school, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Mandarin