About Theresa
Theresa Yucel is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses a person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings ten years of full-time counseling experience and works from a practical, down-to-earth perspective. Theresa aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard and can take steps forward.
Theresa earned a Master of Arts in Counseling from Northwestern University and holds LPC credentials in Texas and Louisiana.
Background and approach
Early in her career she worked three years in an inpatient psychiatric hospital handling crisis situations. That work gave her experience supporting people during intense, urgent moments and informed how she assesses immediate needs. After the hospital setting, she moved to outpatient work with a focus on adult and geriatric group therapy.
She has helped clients facing adjustment challenges, grief and loss, and long-term mood struggles. Her background includes group and individual work across different stages of adult life. Theresa combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic frameworks.
She also draws on solution-focused methods to set concrete goals and track progress. Sessions emphasize practical skills such as boundary setting, stress management, and self-care planning. People come to Theresa for issues like relationship strain, parenting pressures, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood concerns, panic attacks, and questions about life purpose or career direction.
She frames therapy as a partnership and works collaboratively to find small, doable changes that add up over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Theresa works with client-centered therapy that focuses on your priorities and pace. Sessions begin by listening closely to what matters to you, then shaping sessions around those concerns. This approach helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk and be understood.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers practical exercises and coping skills you can try between sessions for issues like anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood. These tools adapt well to video or phone sessions where goals and homework can be reviewed together.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Theresa will discuss options and tailor methods to your goals and preferences, so therapy fits your life and what you want to change. That collaboration helps decide whether a skills-based plan or a deeper exploration of history is more helpful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face-to-face from wherever you are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections between appointments. These options support flexible scheduling and consistent follow-up with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English