About Teresa
Teresa Paris is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting concerns. Teresa focuses on building strength, respect, and practical skills in sessions.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She helps clients identify existing strengths and then uses those strengths to set small, achievable goals. Conversations are tailored to each person, and Teresa emphasizes compassion and sensitivity throughout the process.
Background and approach
Teresa blends several evidence-informed approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thinking and teaches skills from dialectical behavior therapy for managing strong emotions. Attachment-based ideas help explore relationship patterns that affect daily life.
Many people come for help with parenting stress, low self-esteem, life transitions, or persistent worry such as panic and anxiety. Teresa also addresses relationship communication problems, feelings of guilt or shame, and issues related to pregnancy, postpartum challenges, or veteran experiences. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to the client's goals.
Teresa works in English and practices across a range of cultural backgrounds. She frames therapy as a shared effort and supports each person in making changes that fit their daily life. The focus is on small steps that add up to clearer choices and better coping.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter to the person. It helps with anxiety, stress, and life changes by emphasizing meaningful goals over perfect feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce worry and depressive thinking. It is useful for panic, persistent anxiety, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationships shape reactions and coping, which can be helpful when communication or trust are central issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will discuss options with each person and decide together what fits best for their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include mixing methods so sessions remain focused and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues during skill practice. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or steady support between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day while keeping sessions focused on real, usable tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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