About Teresa
Teresa Cortas is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the emotional strain of life changes. She supports clients facing workplace issues, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, identity questions, and challenges like guilt, shame, or emptiness. Teresa brings 25 years of experience to each session and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
She creates a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through painful memories and confusing feelings.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions. Teresa listens for values and goals, then helps shape small experiments to shift thinking and behavior. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing.
That mix helps when someone wants clearer coping skills, realistic thinking patterns, or renewed motivation to change. She also draws on trauma-focused methods when past events are blocking present-day life. Teresa works with people who are grieving, facing midlife transitions, or rethinking career and life purpose.
She helps parents manage stress and supports those experiencing compassion fatigue. The work often combines short-term skill building and deeper reflection depending on what the person needs. Theresa is based in Illinois and holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's perspective and prioritizing their goals. Online sessions let the therapist reflect what a person says and guide conversations at the person’s own pace, which helps when someone needs acceptance and emotional clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Delivered by video or phone, CBT includes homework and short experiments that can be reviewed in subsequent sessions to build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean starting with skill-based CBT and shifting to deeper, trauma-focused work if past events are getting in the way.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls are best for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflection or coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English