About Theresia
Theresia Jackson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about what comes next. She uses straightforward language and a warm approach to listen, name what’s going on, and help clients take practical steps forward.
Many people come to her feeling anxious, depressed, or drained by relationships and life changes; she focuses on making progress one step at a time. Theresia draws on 14 years of clinical experience and a strong background in marriage and family therapy to look at patterns that keep people repeating the same problems.
Background and approach
She pays attention to attachment, codependency, and the ways past wounds can show up in current relationships. Sessions explore what lies beneath the “mask” people wear and work toward emotional relief and clearer choices. Her methods are grounded in hands-on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-based work, and client-centered listening.
She helps clients learn skills to manage anxiety, reduce rumination, and respond differently to triggers. Practical tools and real-life practice are part of her work together with reflection and emotional processing. Theresia also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction concerns, mood differences such as bipolar and depression, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
She offers care for issues like parenting strain, caregiver stress, eating or sleeping problems, chronic illness, and identity-related concerns. Sessions are available from Florida and are offered in English. Theresia combines direct feedback with empathy so clients can build resilience and clearer direction for their lives.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Theresia commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, rumination, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce overthinking, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Theresia will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods over time so the work fits the person’s needs and leads to practical change rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat allow quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style support. These options help people fit sessions into busy days, manage energy levels, and keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English