About Teresa
Teresa Riley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in Texas. She brings steady, practical care to people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. Teresa explains things plainly and focuses on what helps right now.
Over her career she has worked in crisis mental health, residential addiction settings, and outpatient clinics. That range gives her experience with trauma, substance use challenges, and complex emotional states like depression and bipolar mood concerns.
How Teresa works
Teresa uses approaches that help people understand patterns and build workable skills. Her style blends direct skills work with attention to emotions and relationships. She helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of managing strong feelings, and repair connections that matter.
Sessions tend to be practical, with tools to use between meetings. Teresa also supports people dealing with parenting stress, caregiver strain, codependency, and issues tied to adoption or blended families. She addresses intimacy and communication concerns in straightforward ways so people can make changes they notice.
People who want collaborative, down-to-earth therapy may find her approach a good fit. She works with individuals and couples to set clear goals, try small changes, and track progress over time.
Teresa lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work and connection
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. It looks at patterns in close connections and supports building more supported ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions in relationships and helps partners or individuals name, express, and respond to core feelings to repair connection and increase closeness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will choose which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit care into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice interaction work. Phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, coaching, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and to use therapy in ways that match daily life.
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