About Teresa
Teresa Gehman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship and intimacy issues. She also supports people facing parenting strain, compassion fatigue, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and a range of life changes. Teresa has thirty years of experience in clinical work.
She focuses on practical, person-centered work. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
How Teresa works
Teresa listens for what matters most to each person and helps them find tools that fit their life. Teresa uses several well-known therapy approaches and blends them to match individual needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build flexible coping.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns and early losses matter. Her background includes long experience with loss, trauma, eating and addiction struggles, and issues tied to aging, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
She also addresses concerns such as body image, codependency, communication problems, and recovery after separation or divorce. People meet her tone as warm and direct. She aims to make sessions understandable and useful.
Teresa invites each person to try different steps, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Teresa lists 6 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and what online work looks like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what truly matters to them and take small, committed steps toward those values even when hard feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and experiments; it often helps with anxiety, mood shifts, and patterns that keep problems going. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in adult relationships and can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.Theresa will work with each person to pick approaches that match their goals and preferences. Finding the best fit is a collaborative process where methods are adjusted based on what helps in real life. The therapist will suggest steps, invite feedback, and change course as needed.
Online therapy with Teresa is available by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between longer sessions, do brief check-ins, or work in shorter bursts that fit a busy schedule. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to attend while focusing on the same therapeutic work as in-person care.
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