Teri Hines
Compassionate, practical mental health support
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Teri
Teri Hines is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor who focuses on common family and parenting concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and issues around relationships and intimacy. She brings 20 years of professional experience to conversations about addiction, mood disorders like depression and bipolar, and challenges that affect daily life such as sleep and anger.
Her tone is steady and nonjudgmental, aimed at parents and caregivers looking for straightforward support.
Background and approach
In sessions she works to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through honestly. She emphasizes practical steps and clear goals over jargon. She helps people sort priorities, build coping strategies, and make changes that fit family life and parenting responsibilities.
Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thought and behavior; motivational interviewing, which helps people find their own reasons for change; and solution-focused therapy, which zooms in on small, usable steps toward better days. These methods are used together as needed to match the concern at hand.
Teri is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - practicing in Florida (FL LMHC MH7564). She conducts sessions in English and does not accept international clients. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy family schedules.
She encourages taking one small step toward help rather than waiting for perfect timing. The first meeting is usually about listening, clarifying goals, and deciding what comes next.
How these approaches translate to online sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavior changes to see if life improves. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress that get in the way of parenting and daily routines.Motivational interviewing focuses on helping someone find their own reasons for change. It’s conversational and supportive, and it can be helpful for addictions, building healthier habits, or shifting motivation around difficult family situations.
Solution-focused therapy aims at concrete, short-term goals and identifies simple steps that move a person toward what they want. It works well when parents need clear, quick strategies to manage problems and restore stability.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teri will listen to your goals and concerns, then together you will choose which method or combination feels most useful. This collaborative process makes it easier to adapt therapy to changing needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people managing family responsibilities. Video calls let you keep face-to-face connection without travel, phone sessions provide a simpler option for busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging allow quick check-ins and small-step support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a parenting schedule and maintain continuity over time.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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