About Theresa
Theresa Kibbe is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina with 21 years of experience helping people facing anxiety and related concerns. She encourages a straightforward, respectful approach and believes clients know their own story best. Theresa focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Theresa helps people who are struggling with stress, depression, bipolar symptoms, and grief. She also works with those dealing with addictions, eating and body image issues, anger, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She pays attention to family of origin problems, communication and commitment issues, and the effects of caregiving and first responder work. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first and then suggests approaches that feel manageable.
Theresa uses methods that include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, somatic work to notice how the body holds stress, and trauma-focused tools for painful memories. Theresa values small, practical changes that build confidence. Sessions aim to break big problems into do-able steps.
She works with people on skills for coping with life changes and strengthening self-esteem. Theresa offers sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are set through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Theresa Uses Trauma-Informed and Cognitive Approaches Online
Theresa often blends cognitive behavioral work with trauma-focused and somatic techniques. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-focused therapy targets distressing memories and their effects, using careful processing and grounding to reduce their hold on day-to-day life. Somatic therapy helps people notice bodily sensations tied to stress and learn gentle ways to release tension and regain calm.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Theresa will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels safest. Together they decide whether CBT, trauma-focused work, somatic techniques, or a mix will best fit the situation and stage of healing.
Online sessions make regular work on these approaches easier to fit into life. Video calls allow for face-to-face connection and real-time exercises. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick coping prompts, check-ins between sessions, and ongoing support when writing feels easier. These options provide flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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