About Teresa
Teresa Velazquez Navarro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of professional experience in California. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or who live with anxiety. Teresa also works with those coping with relationship struggles, trauma, and low self-esteem.
Her approach starts with building a calm, nonjudgmental space. She encourages people to talk about what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings as well as clearer ways to understand difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Teresa combines talk therapy with skills-based methods to address mood and anxiety symptoms. She pays attention to how early attachment and current relationships shape how people relate and feel. That focus can help when abandonment, trust, or communication problems are part of the concern.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior strategies to help manage intense emotions and reduce unhelpful thinking patterns. Emotionally focused techniques are used when relationship dynamics need attention, helping people name and shift patterns that keep them stuck. Teresa aims to make change feel doable.
She works at a steady pace and adjusts interventions to each person's needs. The goal is clearer choices, stronger emotional skills, and more confidence moving forward.
Approach and online care that fit your needs
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps when trust, abandonment, or close-relationship patterns cause pain. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. It works well for building confidence and clarity about choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative rather than fixed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to have shorter check-ins, keep momentum between sessions, or fit support into a busy day. These options add flexibility and make it easier to connect with a licensed professional from different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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