Teresa Worthy
Focused practical therapy for real-life problems
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teresa
Teresa Worthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses a practical, people-first approach to therapy. She relies on clear conversations and hands-on strategies to help clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges. Teresa aims to meet people where they are and build a plan that fits day-to-day life.
She brings 21 years of direct counseling experience and draws on several well-known methods rather than a single technique.
Background and approach
Sessions are guided by respect, sensitivity, and straightforward problem-solving. Teresa avoids labels and focuses on what will actually help someone feel and function better. Her work has included supporting people coping with trauma and domestic violence, and those living with ADHD or mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
She also addresses grief, sleep problems, intimacy-related issues, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Practical skills and short-term tools are mixed with deeper conversation when needed. Theresa adapts her approach to each person’s situation, combining elements from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and emotion-focused techniques.
She explains ideas in everyday language so clients can try things between sessions. The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Clients connect with Teresa using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she accepts international clients while providing services in English.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy involves noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of stress, panic, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional bonds, useful for intimacy-related issues and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will talk with each client about goals and day-to-day needs, then suggest methods to try together. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy makes regular care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions suit people on the go. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or use short written coaching. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones, and Teresa accepts international clients while working in English.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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