Terese Ghilarducci, LMFT
Compassionate therapist for stress and anger
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Terese works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Terese
Terese Ghilarducci is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Her background includes long work in schools and social work with foster children and families, so she is comfortable supporting parents and caregivers who are worried about young people.
Terese spent many years as a school counselor in alternative education settings.
Background and approach
She worked daily with adolescents facing school phobia, substance use concerns, family conflict, and struggles that got in the way of learning. More recently she began counseling at an elementary school and continues to present classroom lessons on bullying, inclusion, and coping skills. Her approach centers on client-centered therapy.
She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals. Terese often blends cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to reduce anxious thinking and improve day-to-day coping. She also uses solution-focused techniques to build on what already works for a person.
Art and journaling are tools she brings into sessions to help people name feelings, practice new responses, and process grief or loss. Terese aims for straightforward, practical steps that fit a family's life. She helps parents address parenting stress, communication problems, and concerns about attachment or adoption and foster care.
Her work includes support for issues such as ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem.
What Terese works with
Everything Terese lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Terese's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Terese lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-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.
How Terese blends approaches for online therapy
Terese uses client-centered therapy to begin conversations where the person's concerns lead the agenda. This approach focuses on understanding the person's experience, building trust, and helping them identify their goals for change.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT helps people break patterns of anxious or angry thinking and practice new responses to everyday stresses.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Terese will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts over time as progress and priorities change.
Online sessions are delivered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break in the day, and chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options help people fit therapy into school, work, or parenting routines while using the therapeutic tools described above.
Questions people ask about Terese
What concerns does this therapist address?
Terese works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and family problems, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, parenting issues, and attention-related challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, adding cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques when helpful to teach coping skills and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience, including long-term roles as a school counselor and earlier work as a social worker with foster children.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing in California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Terese offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.