That work included helping students with school phobia, anxiety, substance use concerns, behavior that affected learning, and trouble making or keeping friends. She also has a background as a social worker with foster children and foster families, which informs her approach to attachment and adoption issues.

In sessions she centers the person in front of her and listens for the patterns that make problems feel stuck. She uses client-centered methods to help people notice what matters most to them. She often brings in cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior that produces different results.

Terese also uses mindfulness practices to decrease reactivity and improve focus, and solution-focused work to set small, achievable goals. She incorporates art and journaling as practical tools families and individuals can use between sessions. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people build skills they can use every day.

Her work is shaped by decades in schools and community settings, where clear steps and usable strategies mattered most. Terese aims to make therapy approachable and useful for people coping with life changes, parenting strains, family conflicts, trauma, or long-term stress.