About Theresa
Theresa Yu, LCMHC, LPC, brings a practical, person-centered style to therapy. She keeps sessions focused and straightforward so parents can quickly see how conversations might help day-to-day life. She tailors each session to what works best for the individual.
Sessions include clear tools and step-by-step strategies to manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and relationship struggles. Theresa aims to help clients make usable changes rather than only talking about problems. Theresa has nine years of clinical experience and has worked in schools, child protective services, and behavioral health programs.
Background and approach
That background shapes how she supports people dealing with trauma, developmental differences, adoption and foster care concerns, and parenting stress. She also works with adults on career strain, grief, substance concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Her approach blends evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy with attachment-focused work and client-centered care.
Theresa offers practical skills like emotion regulation, communication practice, and coping plans. She also uses trauma-informed techniques when needed. Theresa speaks English and Mandarin and provides services from Oklahoma.
She has experience with online, home-based, and office counseling formats. The goal is a collaborative plan that fits each person's lifestyle and needs, so families and individuals can move toward more manageable days.
Using specific therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then identify values-based actions to move forward. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and homework, which can help with anxiety, mood problems, sleep, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it can help with intimacy, family of origin issues, and parenting concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She often mixes approaches so therapy stays practical and relevant to everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people practice communication skills in real time, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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