About Theresia
Theresia Jackson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She brings 14 years of clinical experience and a straightforward style that helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure about what comes next. Many who meet her are carrying heavy emotions beneath a public mask; she helps them name what is happening and begin to move forward.
Theresia uses a mix of practical therapies to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on noticing patterns, managing intense feelings, and building clearer choices. She listens to each person's story and offers direct, compassionate feedback rather than vague platitudes. Her background includes extensive graduate-level coursework and research in marriage and family therapy, which informs how she looks at attachment, codependency, and repeating relationship patterns.
That training helps when people want to understand why they repeat the same cycles and how to set healthier boundaries. Common topics she helps with include anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, addiction, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes. She also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, and issues tied to identity and relationships.
Theresia tends to combine cognitive-behavioral techniques with approaches that focus on values, emotion regulation, and attachment. The work is practical and tailored - the goal is clearer thinking, more effective coping, and stronger emotional resilience.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Theresia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behavior patterns; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify personal values and take small steps toward a more meaningful life when avoidance or worry gets in the way. Attachment-based work is used to look at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and to build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will listen to the person's story, discuss goals and preferences, and together decide which methods to try first. That way the work fits the individual's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling easier to fit into a busy life. Video sessions let visual cues guide the work, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works for quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options allow people to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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