About Therese
Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She offers calm, steady support for people managing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on understanding how attachment and life patterns shape everyday struggles.
Therese worked in mental health and human services for decades before moving into independent practice. She trained at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology, where she studied clinical psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy.
Background and approach
That background informs how she sees patterns in relationships and mood. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to build trust and practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce stress and improve sleep.
Attachment-focused work looks at how early bonds affect current closeness and conflict. Therese helps people tackle a wide range of concerns such as addictions, grief and loss, trauma, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, and issues linked to intimacy and communication. She also supports those facing major life transitions, career pressures, or caregiving and hospice-related challenges.
People can expect straightforward conversations, concrete homework when useful, and a focus on small, doable changes. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through multiple formats to fit varied schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Therese often blends attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current trust and closeness, which can be useful for relationship, intimacy, and communication struggles. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety, depression, or insomnia active. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to create a supportive space and teach skills for stress reduction. Finding the right mix is part of the process. The therapist and client work together to choose the approaches that fit the person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and they adjust methods as progress is made. Online options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversations, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats increase flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during work breaks, and steady follow-up while working toward goals.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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