About Theresa
Theresa Bowler-Shopeyin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than two decades of experience helping people in Oklahoma. She focuses on building a trusting relationship first, listening without judgment and offering steady support. Theresa aims to create a setting where people feel comfortable sharing worries, symptoms, and the stories that brought them to therapy.
Her approach begins with understanding each person's needs and goals. She uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes the client's own perspective and strengths.
How Theresa works
Theresa may also draw on a variety of techniques to meet practical needs, tailoring sessions to what each person finds helpful. Theresa has worked across many concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting stress, sleep or eating struggles, ADHD, self-esteem issues, and career transitions. Sessions are structured around listening, gentle challenge, and problem-solving. Theresa combines education about emotional responses with step-by-step strategies people can try between sessions.
Her style aims to be straightforward and warm, so people leave with clearer options and small, manageable steps toward change. Theresa brings 22 years of counseling experience and professional licensure as LPC-MHSP and LPC. She sees clients in Oklahoma and works with people from other locations as well.
Her goal is practical help that fits each person’s life and schedule.
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What Theresa works with
The areas below are the ones Theresa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LPC-MHSP, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How client-centered care works online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and strengths. In sessions the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify their goals. This approach is useful for concerns like anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and relationship struggles because it centers on the client’s own priorities.Theresa pairs client-centered work with practical strategies when helpful. That may include education about emotional reactions, stepwise problem solving, and ideas to try between sessions. These elements aim to make therapy feel collaborative so the therapist and client decide together what methods fit best.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Theresa will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques as needed, and adjust the plan based on how things are going. The focus is on what helps the individual move forward, not on fitting a single method.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a full conversation and pick up on visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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