About Theresa
Theresa Grodi-Kennon is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. She brings 21 years of experience in mental health to each session and focuses on helping people regain balance when life feels overwhelming. She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related concerns.
Theresa also supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem issues. Her work includes attention to career transitions, compassion fatigue, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Theresa aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard. She listens, reflects, and works alongside people to name feelings and set small, realistic goals. She uses practical problem solving and offers resources clients can use between sessions.
Her approach blends acceptance and commitment strategies with client-centered care and cognitive behavioral ideas. She also draws on emotionally-focused and psychodynamic perspectives when helpful to understand patterns and emotions. Theresa emphasizes building coping skills and new habits to restore confidence and daily functioning.
People who come for help often want straightforward tools and steady support. Theresa offers that kind of steady presence while helping clients reframe thoughts, reduce distressing symptoms, and build routines that work. She encourages openness and honest collaboration to begin change and recovery.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and trouble getting motivated. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship by listening deeply and reflecting what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel understood and build confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or anger difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set aims, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotion work. Phone calls can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers audio only. Live chat and text sessions are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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