About Theresa
Theresa Yu is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of experience. She practices from Oklahoma and offers therapy in English and Mandarin. Theresa focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, parenting concerns, depression, and other life challenges.
Theresa adapts her approach to fit each person's needs. She blends methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered care, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear tools and steps clients can try between meetings. Her background includes telehealth, home-based, and office counseling. She has worked with people affected by complex developmental trauma, abuse or neglect, and those who have special needs including Autism Spectrum concerns.
Theresa has also supported adults facing anxiety, mood struggles, relationship issues, and the stress of major life changes. Theresa’s past roles include social work, foster and adoptive specialist work with child protective services, special education support, pre-K teaching, and behavioral health case management. These experiences shape a practical style that looks for immediate, usable strategies.
She is a parent and caregiver and has experience hosting exchange students and living with multiple pets, including therapy dogs. Theresa invites people to try a session and see if the fit feels right. The first meetings focus on understanding current concerns and creating a simple plan to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Theresa often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try small behavior changes to ease anxiety or mood problems. ACT focuses on values and committed action, helping people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward what matters to them.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Theresa will talk with each person about symptoms, life goals, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose methods and set short-term goals that can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions that feel similar to in-person meetings. Phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited or for easier check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexibility for brief check-ins, homework review, or when writing is more comfortable. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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