About Terrie
Terrie Pittman is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical support that people can use between sessions. Terrie aims to make conversations straightforward and nonjudgmental so people feel safe sharing what they're facing.
She works with concerns like grief, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and anger. Terrie also addresses attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and conflicts that come with separation or blended families.
Background and approach
She draws on methods that focus on patterns between partners and on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In sessions she balances listening with skill-building. That can mean noticing how past relationships shape current reactions, practicing communication techniques, or trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety.
Her approach mixes steady support with clear tools clients can try at home. Terrie has spent much of her career assisting people through major life transitions and relationship repairs. She has experience with pre-marital counseling, anger management, domestic violence-related concerns, and marriage maintenance.
Her California licensure is LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. People who want direct, practical help with relationship matters or worry often find her style useful. She encourages modest steps forward and works collaboratively to set achievable goals.
Terrie aims to empower people to feel more capable and connected as they move through change.
How Terrie’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current behavior. Online sessions use conversation to identify those patterns and try new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep worry and stress active. In an online visit this often means practicing new thought habits and small actions between sessions. The Gottman Method concentrates on improving communication and managing conflict in partnerships by teaching specific skills for repair and connection during everyday interactions.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, and together you can try methods that fit your needs. Sometimes one approach is used alone, and other times techniques are combined to address anxiety, relationship strain, or parenting stress.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let you work face to face when travel or scheduling is difficult. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexible communication during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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