About Teresa
Teresa Longo helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She supports those struggling with addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and grief, and a range of intimacy and eating issues. Teresa is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience.
She speaks English and offers online formats like video, phone, chat, and text. She aims to make the first step feel less daunting.
How Teresa works
Teresa creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they feel and think. She listens closely and helps people name their concerns before deciding what to try next. Her work draws on client-centered principles that prioritize the person's perspective.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that cause distress. Existential ideas come into play when people want to examine meaning, choices, and how to live with difficult emotions. Teresa often focuses on practical strategies for coping day to day.
That might look like setting small goals, trying new ways to respond to stress, or learning skills for managing mood swings and impulsivity. She balances skills work with talking through painful experiences so people can move forward. Those who want to try online care can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Teresa asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started and then schedule sessions based on her availability.
Teresa lists 3 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own experience. Teresa listens without judgment and follows the client's lead so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to talk through emotions and make sense of tough situations.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Teresa uses straightforward CBT tools to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors that reduce distress. This is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and managing impulses.
Existential therapy invites reflection about values, choices, and meaning. Teresa brings this perspective when clients want to consider life direction, responsibility, and how to live more authentically despite hard feelings.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Teresa works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She may blend ideas from different approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let people keep visual connection while meeting from other locations. Phone sessions or live chat can work when bandwidth or schedules make video difficult. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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