About Audrey
Audrey Teshima is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She also supports those navigating grief, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to ADHD. Audrey writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person.
She brings a decade of clinical experience combined with years working in public schools. That mix means she is used to practical problem solving and clear communication.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life changes parents and adults contend with, like communication problems, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress. Audrey uses several well-known approaches to guide conversations. She leans on client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and mindfulness practices to help people manage intense emotion.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help set concrete goals and small steps forward. Her style aims to balance gentle guidance with practical tools. She may include faith-based perspectives when clients want that influence woven into sessions, and she centers on strengths to build resilience and hope.
Many people come seeking clearer routines, steadier mood, or better communication skills. Audrey’s background in schools and community settings informs a flexible, problem-solving approach. She helps people break big problems into manageable steps and build habits that fit day-to-day life.
The work is collaborative, with a focus on what the person wants to change next.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. It creates space for people to set the agenda and bring up what feels most pressing, which helps shape online sessions around real goals rather than a fixed plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often uses short exercises, homework, and clear steps that work well in video or text formats for people tracking progress between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear interpersonal skills. Those skill sets can be practiced in real time during sessions and reinforced with brief reminders or worksheets between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying methods, checking in about what helps, and adjusting as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients work face-to-face when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or to share quick updates. These options help people fit therapy into their routines and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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