About Therese
Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief, and ADHD. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Therese trained at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology and holds a California LMFT. She draws from attachment-based work to look at patterns in close relationships and from client-centered methods to keep conversations grounded in the person's own goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In sessions she listens first and then suggests small, doable changes. That might mean practicing a new way to talk about needs, testing a coping strategy between sessions, or trying a short mindfulness exercise to calm anxiety.
She keeps plans concrete so clients can see progress week to week. Therese also helps people who are dealing with complex life transitions such as divorce, fertility struggles, hospice and end-of-life concerns, or career shifts. She supports those coping with trauma, codependency, attachment wounds, and the challenges that come with mood disorders.
Her style is collaborative and steady. She aims to build a working plan with each person that fits their life and priorities. People reach out to her when they want clear steps, honest conversation, and practical tools to handle hard moments.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Therese blends attachment-based therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to address relationship patterns and everyday thinking habits. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape trust and closeness, which can help with communication and intimacy concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also uses client-centered methods that keep the conversation focused on the client's own values and goals. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - she helps people weigh what feels helpful and adjusts the plan as needs and goals change over time.
Therese offers several online formats to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video calls let people connect face-to-face for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it possible to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy around work, parenting, or other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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