About Teri
Teri Struthers is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota with 25 years of clinical experience. She draws on a background that includes nursing, military life, and college teaching to shape practical, down-to-earth care. She emphasizes building a trusting relationship and helping people move toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.
Her style centers on listening first and then helping people try concrete strategies. She uses client-centered conversations alongside cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track small wins. Teri helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also supports people managing anger, career stress, parenting strain, seasonal mood shifts, social anxiety, and workplace issues.
Her approach blends practical steps with attention to values and personal meaning. Sessions often involve identifying patterns, practicing new skills between meetings, and checking progress. She encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to build routines that reflect those priorities.
Teri describes faith as part of her own foundation and is respectful of each person’s beliefs. She focuses on helping individuals gain self-awareness, strengthen coping skills, and take responsibility for changes they want to make in daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and topics. This approach helps people gain clarity about their values and strengths and can be useful for stress, relationship questions, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing concrete skills to change reactions. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related coping strategies.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, achievable changes. Sessions set short-term goals and track what works, which can be motivating when dealing with life transitions or specific problems.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. Over a few sessions they will adjust the plan based on what is helpful for the person.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text can be used for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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