About Theresa
Theresa Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people feeling stuck by mood problems, trauma, substance use, or relationship pain. Theresa listens without judgment and helps clients find clearer ways forward.
Theresa began her career supporting people impacted by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Over time she expanded to work with people whose lives were affected by substance use, including roles in drug court and personal substance abuse counseling.
Background and approach
That background shaped her skill set for grief, trauma, PTSD, and addiction-related concerns. Her day-to-day work uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral tools to change thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to repair connection and Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques to address relationship distress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is part of how she helps people commit to values-based change. Theresa is comfortable integrating a client's spiritual beliefs when it matters to them. She offers Biblical counseling and prayer if a client requests it and sees spiritual resources as one tool among others.
Her practice emphasizes respect, compassion, and a nonjudgmental approach. Theresa practices in Oklahoma and communicates in English. She works with a wide range of life challenges including depression, bipolar concerns, anger, intimacy-related worries, family and communication problems, career stress, and coping with big life changes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify their values, and take small committed actions that align with what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and addiction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, and it can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. She treats the choice as collaborative and may combine techniques over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy with Theresa uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is good for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and work therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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