About Teresa
Teresa Freeman is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and also helps with addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression. Teresa uses straightforward talk and practical strategies to help people cope with hard moments.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what they are feeling. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, learning new skills, and trying small changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Teresa emphasizes honesty and gentle challenge rather than long lectures. Her work draws on several approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thoughts that fuel anxious or low moods and test new ways of thinking.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports making values-based choices even when emotions are intense. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present reactions and helps people build healthier connection habits. Teresa also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Client-Centered Therapy principles guide the way she listens and reflects to help clients find their own answers. Together these methods provide concrete tools and steady support for everyday problems. Teresa practices in North Carolina and offers sessions in English.
She understands that starting therapy can feel hard and aims to make the process clear and manageable for each person.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting locked into them, then choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises and homework to build meaningful habits between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing different behaviors to change mood and anxiety. In video or phone sessions, CBT work often includes thought records, behavioral experiments, and practical problem solving that can be reviewed together.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will help you decide which methods fit your needs and goals. That decision is collaborative and can shift as you make progress or face new challenges.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you cover deeper material and practice skills visually. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and brief processing between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical care needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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