Teresa Gehman
Compassionate therapist for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teresa
Teresa Gehman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of emotional and life challenges. She combines warmth with practical problem-solving to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, eating concerns, addictions, and intimacy or relationship struggles.
Teresa aims to make the first step feel manageable and to welcome each person without judgment. Teresa uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
She adapts tools from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to address unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust and meet people where they are.
With three decades of experience, Teresa has worked with many concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and issues related to aging, caregiving, chronic illness, and body image. Her experience includes supporting people dealing with illness, loss, and major life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and occur from her New York practice.
Teresa holds NY LMHC 001358 as her professional credential. She works collaboratively to set goals and tries to keep therapy focused and practical while still honoring each person’s story. Teresa welcomes a straightforward conversation about needs and goals.
She explains options, offers tools that can be practiced between sessions, and adjusts the plan as work progresses. The emphasis is on usable steps that fit daily life and family responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes building trust and understanding how past relationships shape current responses, which can help with intimacy and communication challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what helps in practice. That collaborative stance keeps therapy focused and responsive to real-life needs.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to connect from home, on the go, or between responsibilities. The variety also allows using short check-ins or longer conversations depending on what the person needs at the time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point