About Terence
Dr. Terence "Terry" Rooney is a licensed clinical psychologist in California with four decades of experience. He has worked across public and personal settings and brings a wide-ranging background to sessions.
He commonly helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD concerns. He also works with those facing addiction, career strain, and major life changes. He uses a practical, direct style that aims to meet people where they are.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and usable strategies. He draws on techniques that help with thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and everyday coping skills. Rooney combines a client-centered outlook with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices.
He also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches when deeper meaning or identity questions arise. That range lets him match methods to the problem at hand rather than sticking to one way of working. For people juggling heavy responsibilities, caregiving, or complicated family histories, he offers steady guidance and problem-solving.
He also supports those dealing with relationship strain, intimacy worries, or identity-related stress. Conversations are straightforward and geared toward practical change. Appointments can include short-term coaching-style work or longer-term therapy when issues need more time.
Dr. Rooney asks about a person's priorities and shapes sessions around real-life routines. His aim is to make therapy useful and manageable for people with busy lives.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. It helps people who need space to talk through their values, decisions, or relationships and is useful when someone wants to feel heard and respected.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete strategies for managing anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and everyday problems by practicing new ways of thinking and behaving.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple techniques to notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away. This approach can reduce reactivity, improve focus, and support stress management in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust methods as needed. That collaborative process helps clarify what works best for each individual.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexibility during a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit sessions into real-life routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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