About Teresa
Teresa Hess is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She brings ten years of experience to sessions and helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and low self-esteem. Teresa focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more hopeful in day-to-day life.
She uses simple, goal-focused methods so conversations lead to clearer coping tools. Teresa listens closely and helps clients name patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Together they try out small changes and track what feels useful. Her practice pays attention to life transitions like career shifts, parenting pressures, and loss. She also works with concerns related to adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family challenges, and first responder strain.
Teresa offers support for body image, self-love, and finding life purpose. In sessions she draws from approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, narrative strategies, and solution-focused methods. These give a mix of reflection, skill-building, and short-term problem solving.
Teresa adapts her style to each person’s goals and pace. People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk about what matters most. Teresa aims to help clients develop practical skills, strengthen resilience, and pursue clearer next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape present reactions; it helps when people want to understand why they feel stuck in certain interactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and build calm, which can help anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Teresa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions match the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quicker check-ins, and text messaging is handy for brief updates or ongoing reflection. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English