About Therese
Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience helping people work through anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She practices in California and brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions. The focus includes phobias and many life challenges that get in the way of daily functioning.
She uses several practical approaches that aim to make therapy clear and useful. Sessions often look at patterns in relationships and attachment, and then pair those observations with concrete skill practice.
Background and approach
Cognitive tools are used to notice and change unhelpful thinking that fuels anxiety or mood problems. Therese has a long history in mental health and human services and earned her graduate degree from Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology. Her experience includes work with depression, addictions, grief, trauma, eating and sleeping difficulties, and issues tied to intimacy and sexuality.
That background informs a flexible, experienced approach in session. Conversations in therapy are client-centered and grounded in the client’s goals. She helps people name problems, try new ways of responding, and track what feels better over time.
Work may include coaching around life transitions, support for parenting concerns, or strategies for managing anger and compulsive behaviors. Therese offers a supportive setting where the focus is on small, doable changes. She aims to help people build clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and steadier mood management.
Sessions are geared to practical outcomes over weeks and months rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early and current relationships shape how people respond to stress and intimacy. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to identify patterns and try new interaction styles that reduce conflict and anxiety.Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's goals and experience, with the therapist listening closely and following the client's pace. This approach helps people feel heard and then move toward changes that matter to them, whether that means improving communication or managing mood swings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against reality, then practice small behavioral changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and many day-to-day problems because it breaks issues into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust along the way. Together they decide what feels most useful and make a plan for sessions and homework or practice between meetings.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone calls can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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