About Audrey
Audrey Teshima is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a background in public school teaching to her work. Audrey aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes.
She focuses on practical, everyday problems like parenting and co-parenting struggles, family conflict, relationship stress, and career or vocational concerns. Sessions emphasize building confidence and coping skills.
Background and approach
Audrey often helps people who are managing compassion fatigue, ADHD, or the pressures that come from caregiving and life transitions. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Audrey also uses mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing to help people set goals and try new habits.
In sessions she works alongside clients to identify strengths and small, realistic steps forward. Audrey’s past work includes independent practice, community mental health and substance abuse clinics, and elementary through high school settings. That mix of classroom and clinical experience shapes her practical style and her focus on usable strategies.
She supports people through both immediate crises and longer term growth. People who prefer a collaborative, strengths-based approach may find her style approachable. Audrey aims to help clients build resilience and clearer next steps so they can manage stress and move toward a more hopeful, resourceful life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy means sessions begin by listening to what matters most to each person and shaping support around those needs. This approach helps when someone wants a therapist who follows their pace and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotion and improving relationships. It includes short, actionable skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try tools and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or quieter check-ins, live chat for shorter focused exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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