I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with over 12 years of professional clinical work experience. Additionally, I have extensive experience as a public school teacher. My clinical experience ranges across a variety of treatment settings including private practice, serving the homeless and severe and mentally ill population, and in the elementary, middle and high school environment. I specialize in family conflicts, relationship struggles, parenting/co-parenting issues, self esteem and confidence, empty nest and career difficulties. With gentle balance and guidance, I will walk with you through your areas of concern as you process the vast array of emotions attached to the issues. Together, we will work toward a solution that is focused on your strengths to create a more resourceful, resilient, hope-filled life worth living.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I will spend time with you establishing mutual trust while exploring your current concerns, challenges, and gathering background information on your current living situation and what you are hoping to get out of therapy.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strengths as a provider lie in my ability to establish genuine connections with people from all walks of life. I am easy to talk to, offering a friendly and professional demeanor that puts people at ease. Individuals often describe me as open, honest and have a true love for God. My approachability, honesty, and cultural sensitivity enable me to build strong therapeutic alliances and support individuals in their journey toward a hope-filled life worth living.
About Audrey Teshima
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Christian Counseling
I seek to meet people where they are and honor their faith integrating biblical counseling with peer reviewed evidence based practices (i.e. CBT, DBT, Family Systems, etc.). Christian counseling is an additional way of providing support to what is being discussed and worked on in counseling. Scriptures or chapters within the Bible are sometimes referenced as words of affirmation for encouragement.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I aim to help individuals understand that they have control over their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT is a goal oriented technique frequently used for intrusive thoughts, self-esteem, anxiety, depression and much more.
Child Parent Psychotherapy
I work with parents to provide healthy and positive coping skills to better manage their child's /teen's emotions and behaviors. I utilize this method to help children/teens and their families recover and heal after stressful or traumatic events. Additionally, this method has been used as an effective vehicle in strengthening the relationship between a child and his or her caregiver resulting in restoring the child's cognitive, behavior, and social functioning.
Faith based therapy
I seek to incorporate faith based counseling for the individual or the entire family system in a safe environment encouraging open conversation. I look for underlying themes, patterns of communication, and identify the roles that individuals or different family members may take on. I then share these insights with them in a collaborative and compassionate manner and encourage them to work on developing effective solutions for alleviating dysfunction as a team in a way that avoids shaming and blaming individual members.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
I utilize a Solution Focused Brief Therapy technique incorporating Biblical components while emphasizing the importance of positive change, empowerment, and hope. This technique is goal-oriented, short-term, and an evidence-based therapeutic approach that helps clients find solutions to their problems by focusing on the present and future.