About Teresa
Teresa Buss is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, and self-esteem struggles. She also works with concerns related to ADHD, bipolar symptoms, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy, relationships, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Teresa identifies as non-binary and is an LGBTQ ally, and she supports people with respect for their lived experience. Teresa’s style is welcoming and nonjudgmental. She focuses on building a trusting relationship and listens first to understand a person’s perspective.
How Teresa works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s goals and comfort level. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. She describes using the body, breath work, and image making as part of a bottom-up approach to help people form new habits and responses.
Treatment plans are created together and adjusted as progress is made. Teresa has five years of counseling experience and brings a personal understanding of trauma to her work. She emphasizes emotional regulation and creating new personal narratives after difficult experiences.
That approach aims to help people take small, practical steps toward feeling better. People interested in starting can expect straightforward conversation about goals and clear options for next steps. Teresa accepts international clients and offers multiple remote session formats to fit different needs.
Teresa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Teresa works with
The areas below are the ones Teresa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on relationship and regulation
Teresa uses attachment-based ideas to help people notice how early and current relationships shape their reactions. This approach looks at connection and trust and helps when relationships or patterns feel stuck. She also uses client-centered therapy which centers the person’s own experience and priorities; the therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the person. Mindfulness therapy is part of her work too, teaching breathing and present-moment practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Teresa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set goals and try techniques, then adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a break. Text and chat can work well for brief check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice skills between sessions.
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