Theresa Kibbe
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Theresa
Theresa Kibbe is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, substance issues, and grief. She works with a wide range of life challenges, including trauma, eating and body image concerns, and relationship or family-related struggles.
Theresa draws on 21 years of experience in South Carolina to guide practical steps and steady support for people taking the first steps toward change. Theresa uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions.
Background and approach
She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on what already works. Conversations center on concrete goals and small, doable steps that fit each person’s life. Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-focused techniques, somatic work, and EMDR.
These methods help with patterns of thought and behavior, physical responses to stress, and processing difficult memories. Theresa explains each option and tailors the approach to the client’s needs. Sessions may address addictions, depression or bipolar mood concerns, anger, and problems tied to family history or caregiver stress.
She also supports people facing communication struggles, commitment worries, codependency, and the effects of domestic violence or separation. Therapy often combines talking, behavioral practice, and body-centered exercises. Theresa aims to make starting therapy straightforward.
She encourages small steps, listens without judgment, and partners with clients to set realistic goals. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on usable tools.
Online approaches for trauma and behavior change
Theresa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a hands-on approach that helps identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replaces them with more useful habits; it is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity, and it can be helpful for people with trauma and abuse histories.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Theresa will discuss what feels most relevant and comfortable and help decide which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to match needs and goals.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue care when travel or relocation occurs, and check in between appointments. Licensed professionals can use these options to combine talk-based work, skill practice, and somatic exercises suited to remote sessions.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Somatic Therapy
Works with what the body is doing - tension, breath, restlessness - as much as with what you say about it. Guided attention to physical sensation can be done from your own space.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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