About Theresa
Theresa Yu is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor who draws on several practical therapy approaches to meet each person's needs. She keeps sessions grounded and focused on tools clients can use right away. Theresa speaks English and Mandarin and works with people from varied backgrounds.
Theresa shapes therapy around what will help most. She combines methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to help reduce anxiety, manage stress, and cope with big life changes.
How Theresa works
Sessions often include skill-building, goal setting, and gentle challenges to old patterns. Her background includes nearly a decade of counseling experience across settings like schools, child welfare, and behavioral health programs. That work exposed her to trauma, developmental concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and support for caregivers.
Theresa uses that practical experience when helping people sort through grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, or burnout. Theresa also has experience supporting people facing addiction, mood conditions such as bipolar, sleep or eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. She blends therapy and coaching techniques to address career concerns, self-esteem, and intimacy-related struggles.
The aim is to help clients build usable strategies and clearer direction. Theresa balances professional work with family life as a parent and host to exchange students, and she is an avid animal lover. She invites prospective clients to try a session, talk about goals, and decide together whether her style fits what they need.
Theresa lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Theresa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT focuses on accepting hard feelings and taking small steps toward what matters most.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand trust, closeness, and communication habits to improve intimacy and family connections.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Theresa will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then choose methods together. That makes it easier to adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and make follow-up between sessions easier to manage.
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