About Teri
Teri Nielsen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 35 years of clinical experience. She practices from Utah and has spent decades helping adults and adolescents face relationship strain, trauma, anxiety, addiction, parenting challenges, and ADHD. Her approach is active and straightforward, focused on real change rather than abstract talk.
Teri blends practical strategies with reflective work. She uses client-centered listening alongside cognitive-behavioral tools to help people shift unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to address patterns in close relationships. Her work often includes trauma-informed care and mindfulness practices. She has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and uses meditation techniques to reduce anxiety and interrupt addictive cycles.
Sessions can include focused skill practice, exploration of life purpose, and direct feedback to move clients forward. Many people who seek her help are professionals, first responders, health workers, or those who have tried therapy before and want a more integrative approach. She also meets people new to counseling who want to build a firmer emotional foundation.
Teri values compassion and asks for honesty and commitment from those she works with. Her style is shaped by decades of clinical work and by life roles as a woman, partner, and parent. She encourages courage and persistence, and she partners with clients to set clear goals and practical steps toward them.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeated patterns that pop up in partnerships and families. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name emotions and shift interaction patterns in close relationships to improve connection and security. Teri treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they try an approach, check how it’s going, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use verbal and visual cues for deeper work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule during a workday. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options give flexibility for busy schedules, ongoing skill practice, and steady contact with licensed professionals.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Utah
- Languages
- English
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