Theresa Farello
Focused, practical support for parents
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Theresa
Theresa Farello is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio who focuses on parenting and family-related concerns among many other issues. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and practical for worried parents. Theresa creates a warm, open space where parents can talk through what’s overwhelming them and find realistic ways to cope.
Theresa draws on five years of clinical experience and past roles as a school counselor, director of social services, and adjunct professor.
Background and approach
That background shaped her hands-on style and her comfort working with people at different life stages. She listens for what matters most and then helps set small, doable goals to improve day-to-day functioning. Her approach is rooted in listening and collaboration.
Theresa uses client-centered methods to focus on each person’s perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address strong feelings and attachment concerns. Theresa has experience with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, trauma, addiction, eating concerns, and issues around identity and intimacy.
She also supports people affected by adoption and foster care, autism spectrum differences, first responder and veteran issues, and sensory impairments. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Theresa emphasizes practical steps that fit each family’s routine and commitments.
She encourages taking one small step toward change and will work alongside parents through the process.
How Theresa's Approaches Work Online
Theresa uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's perspective and priorities, helping parents feel heard and understood while identifying what needs to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and routines that get in the way of daily functioning and parenting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when strong emotions or attachment issues affect relationships and caregiving roles; it teaches ways to name and respond to feelings more constructively.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Theresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll try approaches and adjust as needed rather than sticking to a single plan from the start.
Online sessions let parents fit therapy around school, work, and family obligations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer convenience, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when speaking live is difficult. These options aim to make it easier to keep up with therapy and apply what’s learned in real life.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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