About Teresa
Teresa Riley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical work. She practices in Texas and offers help for adults facing anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD. Teresa speaks English and uses a straightforward, collaborative style to help people figure out next steps.
Her background includes work in crisis mental health and residential treatment settings that addressed addiction and trauma. That experience informs a pragmatic approach to safety, relapse prevention, and rebuilding routines.
Background and approach
She also has experience in outpatient clinical care where longer-term coping skills are taught. Teresa combines several therapy styles to match a client's needs rather than using a single method. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical strategies, and improving day-to-day functioning.
She pays close attention to how past attachment patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses. In sessions she uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, build emotional awareness, and strengthen connections with important others. Therapy may include skills work for regulating intense feelings and step-by-step plans for managing cravings or mood shifts.
The tone is direct yet warm, with an emphasis on problem solving and small achievable changes. Teresa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.
Because sessions use a subscription model, the service can be canceled at any time.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Teresa draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and emotional reactions; this helps people address trust, abandonment fears, and recurring conflict patterns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping with life changes.Finding the best fit is collaborative. Teresa works with each person to match approaches to their goals, needs, and what feels doable. She will discuss different options and adjust methods if something isn't helping, so therapy evolves with progress and feedback.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their daily life. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short coaching moments into a busy day. These formats support continuity, flexible scheduling, and practical follow-up between meetings.
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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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