Teresa Vossen
Compassionate, practical support for parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teresa
Teresa Vossen is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of professional experience. She is licensed in Virginia and New York and has spent decades helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Teresa focuses on practical, down-to-earth support and aims to make starting therapy an easier step for worried parents.
She listens with respect and compassion and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. Teresa uses clear, straightforward language and helps clients build skills they can use at home.
Background and approach
She works to strengthen motivation, self-esteem, and confidence through gradual, achievable steps. Teresa draws from several evidence-based approaches to shape care. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices to address day-to-day worries and thinking patterns.
Solution-focused tools and motivational interviewing help set priorities and find forward movement when things feel stuck. Her background includes long-term practice across settings where family and parenting concerns come up often. Teresa helps people sort out communication problems, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and issues tied to family of origin.
She also supports those coping with attachment questions, autism and Asperger Syndrome considerations, and young adult transitions. Teresa tailors the pace and plan to each person. She invites honest conversation about goals and tries simple, realistic steps first.
For many parents a small change can reduce daily pressure and improve family interactions.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and then guides them to set their own goals and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change them; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and parenting-related thinking patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support calm during stressful moments, which many parents find helpful.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences, and will collaborate to try techniques that fit each person’s situation. Clients often combine methods over time as priorities change and small wins shape the plan.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options let people fit therapy around parenting schedules, school drop-offs, and work. Remote formats also make it easier to try shorter check-ins or messaging between sessions when additional support is helpful.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, New York
- Languages
- English
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