Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
How Teresa works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Teresa
Teresa Freeman is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and depression. She brings 13 years of experience and a calm, straightforward approach to short-term problems and longer-term struggles. She creates a warm space for people to say what they are thinking and feeling without judgment.
Sessions aim to clarify what matters most, build concrete skills, and reduce the habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Teresa talks through day-to-day coping strategies as well as patterns that run underneath repeated reactions. Her work draws on techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions.
Teresa mixes these tools with a client-centered stance so each plan fits the person in front of her. Typical concerns she addresses include managing anger, staying sober, reducing anxiety, coping after trauma, and handling ongoing stress from caregiving or chronic illness. She pays attention to how communication, control issues, and feelings of emptiness affect daily life.
Teresa practices in North Carolina and offers evening appointments. She encourages people who are ready to take a first step to reach out and begin the matching process.
What Teresa works with
Everything Teresa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Teresa's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Teresa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match personal values; it is useful for anxiety, anger, and ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior through practical exercises and homework, which can reduce anxiety, depressive symptoms, and impulsive reactions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns influence current reactions and can help with codependency, communication problems, and anger rooted in relational wounds.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Teresa will talk with each person about what matters most, which methods might fit, and how to try them in small steps. Together they decide which techniques to prioritize and adjust the plan as needed based on progress and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be easier for brief check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy evenings and ongoing life obligations.
Questions people ask about Teresa
What concerns does Teresa address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression as well as related issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and communication problems.
What style of therapy does she use?
Teresa combines client-centered work with acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, attachment-based perspectives, and dialectical behavior ideas to build skills and clarify values.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years of professional experience working with people on stress, addiction, trauma, anger and related concerns.
Where is Teresa licensed and based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in North Carolina and practices there.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.