About Tess
Dr. Tess DeProw helps people facing depression, addiction, anxiety, grief, and relationship or parenting struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Missouri with three decades of clinical experience.
Her approach aims to identify strengths and build practical steps forward. She creates a warm and encouraging space where people talk about what matters most to them. Sessions focus on clear goals and small changes that add up.
She draws on several methods to match what each person needs.
How Tess works
Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered listening to follow the person's pace and priorities. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is deciding whether to change a habit or behavior.
Attachment-based ideas help address how past relationships affect current ones, and narrative work can reframe painful stories. Dr. DeProw uses these approaches together to make plans that feel doable.
The aim is practical progress rather than abstract theory. She stresses strengths and choice, helping people recognize options they already have. Her style is empathetic and motivating, and she partners with each person to set realistic steps.
Over time those steps are meant to improve daily life and relationships.
Tess lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Tess works with
The areas below are the ones Tess selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people relate today. Online sessions using this approach help identify patterns in attachment and offer new ways to connect and feel safer in relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. This is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress and can work well in video or phone sessions where homework and skills practice are assigned between meetings. Motivational interviewing is a short-term, collaborative way to explore ambivalence and build motivation for change. It helps people considering shifts in substance use, routines, or other behaviors and translates easily to brief chat or text exchanges when a shorter check-in is helpful. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. That choice is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays practical and aligned with what you want. Online therapy offers flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets someone reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people make consistent progress while fitting therapy into a busy life.Start online instead of waiting
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