Teresa 'Terri" Dawe
Practical family-focused therapy for parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teresa
Teresa "Terri" Dawe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 34 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with relationships, self-esteem, career matters, and depression. Terri keeps language simple and practical so parents can understand next steps quickly.
Terri trained at the University of South Carolina and earned a Master of Social Work at Rutgers University. She completed a Post Master’s Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Family Institute and received training in the Duluth Model of Domestic Violence at the same institute.
Background and approach
Her license is LCSW in New Jersey. Her background includes outpatient clinical work, supervising interns and provisionally licensed clinicians, and designing clinical programs with evidence-based goals. She also has 16 years managing Employee Assistance Programs and has consulted with unions and human resources.
Terri provides training and consultation to other professionals on family and couples cases. In sessions she uses a family systems framework to help people see how their histories shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and psychoeducation to address day-to-day challenges.
Those methods are aimed at clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and better emotional coping. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Terri aims to help clients gain insight, make changes that fit their life, and build more satisfying relationships and self-understanding.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Terri uses family systems ideas to help people see how past patterns affect current relationships. This approach looks at interactions and roles within a family so clients can make clearer choices about boundaries and behavior. It is useful for parents dealing with recurring conflicts and for anyone wanting a bigger-picture view of relationship patterns.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques, which focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical new behaviors. CBT helps with depression, low mood, and everyday coping skills by breaking tasks into manageable steps. Motivational interviewing is another tool she applies to support change by tapping into a person’s own goals and strengths, especially when someone feels stuck or unsure.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Terri discusses goals and preferences with each person and together they decide which approaches to try. That collaborative planning helps shape sessions so they fit a family’s real-life schedule and needs.
Online therapy with Terri is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting and work demands, reduce travel time, and allow follow-up between meetings when useful. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to these formats so clients can keep making progress from home or on the go.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Teresa
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point