About Teresa
Teresa Gehman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, addictions, depression, and phobias. She also addresses relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Teresa brings 30 years of experience to each session.
Her style is warm and direct. She listens carefully and aims to make people feel welcomed. Teresa usually blends practical techniques and talk therapy to fit the person in front of her rather than using a single method for everyone.
Background and approach
Teresa uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She also draws on attachment-focused work and solution-focused tools when they match a person's needs. These methods are used to address anxiety, trauma, relationship patterns, and coping with health or caregiving challenges.
Across three decades of practice she has supported people through grief, eating and body-image concerns, bipolar mood challenges, substance problems, and the aftermath of abuse or disaster. She works with people experiencing caregiving stress, chronic illness, or cancer-related issues as well. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Teresa practices in New York as an LMHC and approaches each case with steady experience and practical focus.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Teresa commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward a valued life, which can be useful for anxiety, grief, and chronic stress. CBT teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often helping with anxiety, mood issues, and some phobias.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and goals. Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work together. Teresa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills work and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a calmer audio-only check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework review, or times when typing fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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