About Teresa
Teresa Longo is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She supports individuals facing relationship and family strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and career or parenting challenges. Teresa aims to make first steps feel easier and less uncertain for anyone ready to change.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and honest listening rather than jargon. Teresa encourages clients to name what matters and to try small changes that build confidence over time. Her approach combines client-centered work with practical cognitive behavioral techniques.
That means she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns to test new behaviors. She also draws on existential ideas to help clients find meaning during big life changes. Teresa has worked with many different concerns over two decades, including mood disorders, trauma and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, attachment struggles, and blended family dynamics. Her background includes helping those facing compassion fatigue and co-occurring problems. People can expect sessions that balance empathy with clear, doable goals.
Teresa views therapy as a collaborative process and invites clients to set the pace. She speaks English and practices in New York as an LMHC.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Teresa blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and existential ideas to guide online care. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client's experience, offering reflective listening and empathy to help people feel understood and heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thought and behavior, then testing small changes to reduce anxiety or lift mood. Existential Therapy helps people name values and meaning when facing major life transitions or questions about purpose.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Teresa will discuss different methods and try them in collaboration with the client. Together they decide what fits the client's goals, comfort level, and pace, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, hands-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, parenting, or other commitments while keeping a steady course of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English