About Theresa
Theresa Fillingim is an LPC who helps people manage anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, and mood struggles. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on building practical skills. Her aim is to help people find clear steps they can use between meetings.
Theresa draws on a client-centered way of working. She listens without judgment and focuses on understanding each person's experience. From that base she teaches coping strategies and small behavior changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
She has a background in counseling and pastoral care, with graduate degrees in counseling, psychology, and divinity. Theresa has practiced in Georgia for many years and brings that range of experience into session work. She has worked with people facing trauma, co-occurring issues, and addictions alongside mood concerns.
Theresa uses tools from attachment-based approaches, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally-focused work. She explains techniques plainly and practices them together with clients so they feel usable in daily life. The focus is on measurable, achievable goals rather than vague ideas.
Theresa also attends to whole-person wellness - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of life. She emphasizes simple, time-sensitive steps that move people toward more satisfying day-to-day functioning. Sessions aim to leave people with at least one concrete thing to try before the next meeting.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when someone wants to change how they relate, manage fears of abandonment, or build more stable connections. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense emotions and impulsive behavior.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they test techniques and adjust the approach as needed to find what works in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for teaching skills and practicing conversation. Phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is low or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short updates, skill prompts, or brief problem-solving between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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