About Teri
Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of clinical experience. She practices in Utah and draws on a long career in both in-patient and out-patient settings. Teri aims to make therapy direct and practical for people facing difficult life challenges.
Teri takes an active, straightforward style in sessions. She blends approaches that focus on emotions, relationships, and thought patterns. Her work often addresses trauma, anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
How Teri works
Her background includes decades of work with adults, adolescents, children, and family-related concerns. Teri has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and has practiced Vipassana meditation since 1993, bringing mindfulness into many sessions. She also uses elements that target thinking patterns and emotional experience.
Teri has worked with people from high-pressure jobs and with those returning to therapy after earlier experiences. She helps people build stronger emotional foundations, handle life changes, and address identity or multicultural concerns. Specific focuses include attachment and abandonment, blended family issues, sexual assault and abuse, and first responder issues.
Clients can expect a therapist who values compassion and honesty. Teri asks for commitment and effort from the people she sees, and she combines clinical knowledge with life experience as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother to inform her work.
Teri lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
What Teri works with
The areas below are the ones Teri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional responses. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in their close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and responding to others.Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on identifying and reshaping core emotions that drive relationship patterns. In remote work, the therapist helps people name feelings, track interaction cycles, and try new emotional responses during conversations or exercises between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs and then recommend or combine methods. That collaboration helps tailor a plan that fits each person rather than forcing one fixed method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when someone prefers no video. Live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins, on-the-go reflections, or written exercises between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and try approaches consistently over time.
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