About Terence
Terence Shigg is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and career or executive coaching needs. He focuses on clear, practical steps that clients can try between sessions. He approaches work in a direct and supportive way and helps people find what works for them.
Terence sees motivation and confidence as skills that can be strengthened.
How Terence works
He helps people break large problems into small, manageable actions. He talks through patterns of thought and behavior and suggests ways to test new approaches in real life. Sessions aim to leave people with concrete next steps rather than only conversation.
He also helps those feeling isolated or stuck in questions about life purpose. Social anxiety and phobia are listed among his focus areas, and he uses coaching techniques when clients want guidance on goals or performance. Terence balances supportive feedback with practical planning to help clients move forward.
Terence believes clients are the experts in their own story. He sees his role as a collaborator who helps uncover strengths and build new habits. Starting therapy is framed as a courageous step, and he emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes.
Terence practices in California and conducts sessions in English. He combines a therapeutic mindset with coaching tools to meet both emotional and practical concerns.
What Terence works with
The areas below are the ones Terence selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and practical steps
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often include goal-focused coaching and structured problem-solving. Goal-focused coaching helps clarify what a person wants to change and breaks larger aims into smaller tasks. It is useful for motivation, career challenges, and building confidence.Structured problem-solving involves identifying specific problems, generating possible solutions, and trying them out. This approach is practical for stress, anxiety, anger management, and everyday relationship challenges because it produces clear next steps to test between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may combine coaching elements with therapeutic techniques and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions around a busy life.
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