About Teresa
Teresa Gehman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports those dealing with eating concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Teresa brings three decades of experience and a calm, practical style to sessions.
She listens first and then works with each person to build a plan that fits their life. Sessions tend to focus on small, useful changes rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
Teresa mixes approaches so the work matches the problem at hand and the person in the room. Teresa uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people get clearer about values and move toward them.
Attachment-focused work helps when early relationships affect how someone connects now. Her manner is direct but warm. She aims to make people feel understood and able to try different strategies.
Practical homework and straightforward feedback are part of her routine. Teresa practices from New York and offers work via video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription service that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then arranges sessions according to therapist availability. With years of experience and an emphasis on collaboration, Teresa helps people tackle the immediate problem and build skills for the future.
How Teresa's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to change mood and daily functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Teresa will discuss these methods with each person and try what fits best. Together they set goals, review progress, and adjust strategies based on what feels useful and realistic for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more interpersonal work is needed. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins, ongoing support, or shorter sessions when writing feels more comfortable. These remote options make it easier to keep appointments across busy schedules and changing circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English