About Audrey
Audrey Teshima helps people navigate parenting stress, relationship strain, and life changes. She works with individuals who are worried about family conflict, career challenges, grief, or low self-esteem. Audrey uses practical tools and steady support to help people manage anxiety, stress, and day-to-day overwhelm.
Audrey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with ten years of clinical experience. Her background includes work in independent practice, community mental health and substance abuse clinics, and time as a public school teacher.
How Audrey works
That mix gives her experience with a range of situations and ages without focusing on any single setting. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities, and she uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot patterns of thinking that make problems worse.
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are added when people need help tolerating strong emotions or improving day-to-day coping. Audrey also brings motivational interviewing into conversations about change and goals. She helps people find practical next steps that fit their lives.
Sessions aim to build on strengths and create skills that can be used between appointments. People who value a calm, respectful approach tend to do well with her. She blends practical techniques with an understanding attitude.
Audrey focuses on helping clients move toward clearer choices and steadier routines.
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What Audrey works with
The areas below are the ones Audrey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. Online sessions let the therapist hear your priorities and shape goals around your life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going; used online it includes practical exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication, and these skills can be taught and reinforced through short in-session practice and messaging between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Audrey will discuss what you want to change and try methods that fit your goals and daily routine. She makes decisions collaboratively and adjusts techniques based on what helps you make steady progress.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, get brief coaching, or keep momentum between sessions. These formats aim to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives while keeping focus on practical change and skill building.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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