About Teela
Teela Ruehle is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with five years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people navigate grief, anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or life-purpose questions. Teela also supports those facing LGBT-related issues and people coping with compassion fatigue.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She treats clients as the experts in their own stories and builds on strengths they already have.
How Teela works
Sessions often center on setting clear goals and taking small, manageable steps toward them. Teela uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns that keep them stuck. She also brings in EMDR for trauma-related work when appropriate, and motivational interviewing to clarify goals and boost commitment to change.
People commonly seek her help for depression, self-esteem struggles, isolation or loneliness, and transitions such as career shifts or immigration-related stress. She offers coaching-style support for career and financial concerns alongside clinical work for mood and trauma symptoms. Her style is steady and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools and real-life problem solving.
Teela helps clients track progress and adjust plans as needed so change feels achievable.
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What Teela works with
The areas below are the ones Teela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with more helpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and workplace or relationship struggles. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps people reprocess painful memories so those memories interfere less with daily life. Finding the best approach is a team effort. Teela will discuss goals, past experiences, and what feels doable, and then suggest ways of working together. Clients and the therapist check in and adjust methods over time so the approach stays aligned with the client's needs and preferences. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face when that helps, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging supports quick updates, ongoing problem-solving, or emotional support between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, pacing, and the way someone prefers to engage in therapy.Start online instead of waiting
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