About Teresa
Teresa Walton-Skinner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on practical changes clients can make in day-to-day life. She listens first and tailors sessions to each person's needs.
Conversations are interactive and collaborative. Teresa avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and compassion. Her work draws on client-centered methods that place the client's goals at the center of care, along with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused ideas to help clients set small, doable goals and track progress. Teresa has four years of professional experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, anger, ADHD, grief, and life transitions. She has been involved in direct service and program development and has worked with a wide range of people over her career.
In sessions she helps clients spot unhelpful thinking, practice new ways of responding, and build skills to manage stress and strong emotions. She also supports people working on career decisions, self-esteem, caregiver stress, and adapting to life changes. Teresa conducts sessions in English and provides video, phone, chat, and text-based options.
If someone prefers a practical, respectful approach with an emphasis on real steps forward, she can help them shape a plan and move toward their goals.
How Teresa’s Approaches Work Online
Teresa uses client-centered methods that put the client's goals and experience first, focusing sessions on what matters most to the person. This helps when someone needs a listening space and wants therapy guided by their own priorities.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking and practice new ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Solution-focused therapy rounds out her approach by emphasizing small, practical goals. This method helps people try specific changes quickly and notice progress without getting stuck on the past.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. Teresa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan based on what works and what the client wants to focus on.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people work through issues in shorter turns or fit support into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain regular work on goals and practice new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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