About Theresa
Theresa Presley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of experience. She practices in Missouri and holds both KS LSCSW and IL LCSW credentials. Her work often focuses on stress and anxiety alongside depression, trauma, and relationship challenges.
Theresa has worked in many settings, including inpatient and outpatient mental health, domestic violence services, and independent practice. She has helped people facing parenting strain, LGBTQ issues, addictions, grief, and career stress.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical steps that people can use between sessions. Her approach centers on strengths and clear connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Theresa uses elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape emotional responses. Sessions aim to build a trusting working relationship. Theresa uses a warm, nonjudgmental style and listens closely to what matters to each person.
She works at a steady pace and focuses on small, achievable changes that fit daily life. People often seek her help when life feels overwhelming. Theresa supports steps toward better coping with anxiety, managing mood changes, and rebuilding after trauma.
She helps people use their existing strengths to move forward.
Online approaches that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses and trust. It helps people who notice repeating patterns in relationships or who want more stable connections with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and manage mood. CBT is often used for stress, worry, and practical coping. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reducing the ongoing impact of past traumatic events and teaches safety and grounding strategies to manage strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs shift or progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet without traveling. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions can work when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets complicated.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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