Teresa Taylor
Practical, compassionate counseling for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teresa
Teresa Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who aims to help people find steadiness amid life’s ups and downs. She draws on five years of clinical experience in Louisiana and focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and ease daily distress. Teresa speaks plain language and centers sessions on what matters most to each person.
Her style is collaborative and direct. She pays attention to thoughts, feelings, and actions and looks for small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Teresa uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients notice thinking patterns that increase stress or anxiety and then try different responses. Sessions often include skill practice and problem-solving tailored to personal goals. Teresa also blends elements of mindfulness and emotionally-focused work to help people connect with their emotions and calm their bodies.
She encourages clients to set realistic goals and track progress between meetings. Teresa has supported adults and couples facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, anxiety, anger, grief, trauma, and relationship conflict. She also addresses issues like sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental. Teresa aims to make therapy useful and understandable, so people leave with clear ideas they can try at home. For those looking for steady, practical help, she offers a straightforward path toward better daily coping.
How Teresa's Approaches Work Online
Teresa draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and manage strong emotions. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness helps people learn simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus.She treats finding the right approach as a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps the client feel more steady and in control.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let people fit counseling into busy schedules, continue care during life transitions, and use tools between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide skill practice and track progress using whatever format works best for the client.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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