About Terese
Terese Fagan is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of practice helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life. Terese uses straightforward talk and steady support to help people find workable changes.
She starts by listening to what matters most to each person and building on their strengths. Sessions are person-centered and direct, with room for practical tools and reflection.
Background and approach
Terese often mixes mindfulness, values work, and skills training to help clients manage difficult feelings and take clear next steps. For someone dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, or caregiver stress, she emphasizes small, sustainable changes. That can mean breaking worries into manageable tasks, trying short mindfulness exercises, or testing a new way of communicating with a partner.
The focus is on what helps in daily life rather than long theory talks. Terese also works with issues around self-esteem, parenting strains, career pressure, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to family of origin patterns, attachment concerns, and feelings of emptiness or abandonment when they come up.
Her aim is to help people build more steadiness and clearer choices in their relationships and routines. People who prefer a calm, respectful approach that mixes practical strategies with personal values tend to fit well. Terese encourages curiosity, small experiments, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Terese’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and stuck patterns because it focuses on doable choices rather than perfect outcomes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. That can help with worry, low mood, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy creates a respectful, listening-based space where the person drives goals and pace; this approach supports self-esteem and builds confidence by treating the client as the expert in their story.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what actually helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you see and hear cues during a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing reflection and quick touch-ins between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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