LCSW, 10 years of experience
Hi, I am Teresa. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker seeing clients in Illinois and North Carolina. I obtained my Masters Degree in Social Work from Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC. I have been practicing Social Work for several decades and I am currently working with college aged students with career counseling, life transitions, coping skills, self esteem. I have extensive experience with older adults, life transitions, end of life, death and dying, chronic illness, grief and loss.
In our first session, I would want to get to know a little about you, what brings you to therapy, what your goals are and challenges you are having. The goal would be to work together towards a plan for your goals.
I have been told I am very easy to talk to. I am empathetic and have genuine care and concern for my clients. I focus on client driven goals.
I love working with both college aged students and older individuals.
Focused on goals of therapy as directed and crafted by client with therapist support. Working on developing skills to work through a specific problem/event.
Processing grief and loss. Providing education on the signs/symptoms of grief and complicated grief. Providing education on grief stages.
Client identified beliefs/thoughts. Exploration of how these thought are impacting overall functioning/well-being. Education and practice on how to restructure thoughts/substitute negative thought patterns.