About Theresa
Theresa Flannery-Blachura is a licensed clinical social worker with sixteen years of practice. She offers a calm, accepting presence for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or difficult relationships. Theresa emphasizes straightforward support you can use right away.
Theresa centers her work on each person's lived experience. She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and build new ways of coping. Common focuses include social anxiety and panic attacks, mood-related concerns, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also works with people navigating sexuality and LGBT concerns, as well as parents carrying caregiver stress. Communication problems and isolation are addressed with clear skill-building and practical strategies. Theresa aims to help clients find more self-love and steadier emotional footing.
Theresa describes her style as empathic and collaborative. Sessions typically combine practical exercises with space to talk about what matters most. She makes room for questions and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs.
Theresa practices in Maine and offers remote options for people outside the area. She brings experience and a patient approach to short-term goals and longer-term healing work.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Theresa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, teachable skills and trauma-aware care. Skills-based work involves teaching concrete tools for managing anxiety and panic - for example breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These methods help reduce immediate symptoms and build confidence over time.Trauma-aware approaches emphasize safety in pacing and understanding how past experiences shape current reactions. This kind of work helps people make sense of distressing memories and reduce their hold on everyday life. Theresa tailors the mix of skills training and trauma-aware care to what each person needs and wants.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and past experiences and together decide which techniques to try first. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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