About Teresita
Teresita Andrade is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Texas. She brings six years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to conversations about anxiety, grief, stress, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She often draws on techniques that focus on thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and present-moment awareness. Sessions are conversational and practical. Teresita helps people name what matters, try simple strategies, and notice small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in hospice care, which shaped her understanding of grief, loss, and end-of-life concerns. That experience helps her sit with difficult feelings and guide people through complex emotions without rushing them. Teresita also supports people dealing with depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and workplace stress.
She addresses issues like codependency, communication problems, control struggles, and feelings of emptiness in clear, down-to-earth terms. Therapy sessions can focus on real-life skills - managing panic, setting boundaries, coping with change, or rebuilding self-trust. She aims to help clients develop tools they can use between sessions and to clarify practical next steps.
People who prefer a compassionate, direct approach tend to fit well with her style. Her goal is to help clients feel understood and more able to move forward one step at a time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many of her methods focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and improving emotion regulation. Cognitive approaches look at thought patterns and teach ways to test and reframe those thoughts, which can reduce anxious thinking and rumination. Skills-based strategies emphasize building coping tools like breathing techniques, grounding, and step-by-step problem solving to manage intense feelings and daily stress.Mindfulness-based practices are also part of her work, helping people notice present-moment experience without judgment. These techniques support grief processing, reduce reactivity, and help with chronic worry by training attention and simple acceptance skills.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then try techniques together to see what fits. Plans are adjusted as needed so therapy remains practical and aligned with the client's needs.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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