About Terri
Dr. Terri Lechnyr uses a warm, client-centered approach to help people manage anxiety and related stress. She is an LCSW with 19 years of experience and focuses on helping people feel calmer and more confident.
Her style is direct but kind, aimed at practical change rather than theory alone. She helps people who struggle with racing thoughts, anxious attachment, and patterns of people-pleasing or codependency. Sessions often focus on small, concrete steps that reduce panic, social anxiety, or overwhelm.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, life changes, and compassion fatigue. In practice she blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice patterns and test new ways of thinking. Mindfulness exercises are used to slow down intense emotions and improve focus.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas help people set short-term goals and keep momentum. Her work is practical and goal-oriented. Conversations aim to identify what is getting in the way and try doable experiments between sessions.
She encourages people to claim more authenticity and let go of what others expect. Dr. Lechnyr provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are arranged through an online matching process and scheduled to fit each person’s life. She works with people in Washington and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy starts by listening and following the person's pace, creating sessions that focus on what matters most. This approach works well for people wanting support in making values-based changes or gaining clearer self-direction.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and tries new behaviors to reduce anxiety and panic. It is useful for managing racing thoughts, social anxiety, and panic attacks through practical exercises and homework.
Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to calm the nervous system and improve emotional regulation. These practices are often short and easy to use between sessions when anxiety feels intense.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust those methods over time as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for visual connection and longer therapy work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep regular contact when needed.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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