About Teresa
Teresa Hess is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Teresa also supports clients working on self-esteem, motivation, and confidence.
Her work begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. She uses clear, practical ways to spot patterns that get in the way and to try new responses.
How Teresa works
Sessions are shaped to fit the client rather than following one fixed method. Teresa draws on approaches that look at relationships, thoughts, and stories people tell about themselves. She blends tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Mindfulness so clients can build healthier habits and calmed thinking.
Narrative and solution-focused tools help people rewrite difficult experiences and set small, doable goals. She pays attention to life transitions, workplace strain, parenting stress, and issues connected to adoption, blended families, or attachment. Teresa also addresses concerns like body image, compassion fatigue, and finding life purpose.
The aim is steady progress you can measure from session to session. People meet a warm, nonjudgmental clinician who explains options in plain language. Teresa helps clients set realistic steps, practice new skills between meetings, and notice the changes that matter in daily life.
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
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online work with this approach can help people understand where strong reactions come from and practice safer ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will talk about goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps most. This collaborative method makes it easier to focus on what a person wants to change and how to measure progress.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more direct conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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