About Teresa
Teresa Fowler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, grief, relationship and intimacy questions, and phobias. She also supports people facing career challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and problems tied to trauma and abuse. Teresa speaks English and American Sign Language.
Teresa takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. She listens closely and asks simple questions to understand what feels most urgent.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, and progress is checked in small, measurable ways. Her style blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and behavioral techniques. Teresa also draws on client-centered and dialectical methods to help people manage strong emotions and painful patterns.
She aims to match tools to each persons preferences rather than using a single fixed method. Across 18 years of practice she has supported people navigating chronic illness, caregiving stress, blended family issues, addiction, domestic violence, abandonment and attachment difficulties, and communication or control struggles. That experience shapes how she frames goals and plans realistic next steps.
Teresa prefers collaborative work. She helps people set concrete goals, build coping skills, and increase daily functioning. The plan usually focuses on strengths and small changes people can sustain.
To begin, she asks people to think about one or two problems they want to change. From there she helps choose the approach and pace that fit each persons life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where moving toward meaningful goals matters more than eliminating every uncomfortable thought.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and trying small experiments to change them. It suits people who want step-by-step strategies for anxiety, depression, phobias, and coping with change.
Teresa sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit their life. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, or another method feels most helpful in practice.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful when visual cues and a conversational flow help progress. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for brief updates, quick coaching between sessions, or when someone wants a written record of strategies. These options give flexibility to schedule work, caregiving, or medical appointments without traveling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
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