About Therese
Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She offers calm, direct care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and addiction or grief-related issues. She keeps sessions practical and focused.
Expect straightforward conversation about the problems you bring and steps you can try between sessions. She uses clear, evidence-informed methods to help people build new patterns and handle life changes more steadily.
How Therese works
Therese trained at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology and holds a California LMFT. Her long career includes work across the mental health and human services field, giving her broad exposure to mood disorders, trauma, and family dynamics. Her approach blends attachment-based thinking with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques.
She also draws on mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning and steady emotions after loss, infertility, or major life shifts. Common topics she addresses include parenting strain, blended family challenges, infidelity and commitment worries, codependency, and communication problems. She also helps with bipolar disorder, ADHD, sleep and eating struggles, and compassion fatigue.
Therese offers sessions in English and practices from California. People connect with her by completing an intake questionnaire and scheduling according to her availability. She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Therese lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Therese works with
The areas below are the ones Therese 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
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment, CBT, and mindfulness translate online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions let clients talk through relationship fears and practice new ways of connecting while reflecting on past patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear, step-by-step strategies. In remote sessions this often means setting short between-session exercises, tracking thoughts in real time, and reviewing progress together. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage mood swings; these exercises can be guided during video or phone sessions and repeated via text reminders.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. Together they will try techniques, adjust them, and pick the formats that fit communication style and needs.
Online therapy with Therese offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and live practice of skills. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework updates, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life transitions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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