About Theresa
Theresa Yu is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Oklahoma. She brings nine years of experience helping people face anxiety, stress, relationship problems, trauma, and other life challenges. Theresa speaks English and Mandarin and offers online sessions by video, phone, chat, or text.
Theresa adapts therapy to fit each person’s needs. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies, learning skills, and building insight that can lead to everyday change. Her background includes work in child welfare, school settings, and behavioral health programs. That experience informs how she supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism spectrum differences, and complex trauma.
Theresa also helps with parenting stress, caregiver strain, grief, addiction concerns, and coping with big life changes. Theresa emphasizes a nonjudgmental, honest approach. She aims to guide and gently challenge clients so they can try new ways of coping.
Parents reading on a phone will find straightforward language and clear steps during sessions rather than jargon or lengthy theory descriptions. Theresa offers a collaborative process to find what works best for each person. She invites people to try a few sessions to see if the approach fits, and to adjust plans as needs change.
Online formats and flexible scheduling are part of how she meets people where they are.
How different methods guide online therapy
Theresa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match those values, which helps with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors together, teaching practical techniques to reduce worry, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Theresa will discuss goals and try methods that fit a person’s needs and preferences. She treats the process as collaborative, checking in about what helps and adjusting strategies over time so sessions remain useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting tools between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to follow up on skills, and to access care from different places.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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