About Teresa
Teresa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on practical, person-centered care and helps people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, grief, and phobias. Teresa keeps language simple and aims to make sessions feel respectful and straightforward.
She trained in social work at the University of Montana and earned her LCSW in 2003. Teresa has worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient, and inpatient settings. That range means she has experience helping people through both short-term crises and longer recovery plans.
Background and approach
Teresa uses approaches that people can put into daily life. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She teaches skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions and improve coping.
She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related distress. Her background as a medical social worker adds experience treating co-occurring health problems alongside mental health concerns. Sessions focus on the client’s goals.
Teresa emphasizes collaboration and practical steps rather than jargon. She supports people facing relationship strains, career challenges, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. Teresa works from Montana and offers sessions in English.
She provides several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort. The therapeutic plan is shaped by each person’s needs and priorities.
How Teresa’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions can focus on small, practical steps to build a meaningful routine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches concrete ways to change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In video or chat sessions Teresa can guide thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework that fit everyday life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Teresa will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try first. Sessions can combine approaches as needs change over time, with regular check-ins about progress and adjustments.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and EMDR-style work when appropriate. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into busy days or to share thoughts between sessions. These options let people pick what works best for their schedule and comfort while working toward clear goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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