About Teresa
Teresa Riley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Texas and supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship and family concerns. Teresa also helps with grief, trauma and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar difficulties.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Teresa focuses on clear goals and teaches skills people can use between meetings. Conversations are straightforward and paced to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Teresa draws on attachment-based work to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centered methods that center the person’s own values and choices. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Her experience includes crisis mental health and addiction treatment settings, plus outpatient clinical work. That background influences how she manages safety, relapse concerns, and strong emotional reactions. Teresa aims to make therapy feel manageable even when problems are complex.
Many people come to her for help with parenting strain, caregiving stress, intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and codependency. She also supports those coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. Teresa works collaboratively to build a clear plan and practical next steps for change.
How Teresa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to notice patterns and try new ways of relating, which can help with intimacy and relationship stress.Client-centered work focuses on the person’s own goals and choices. In this approach the therapist listens closely and mirrors concerns so the client can clarify values and decide next steps, useful for decisions about parenting, relationships, and life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. Teresa will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions let you use visual cues for relationship work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Texas
- Languages
- English
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