About Teresa
Teresa Velazquez Navarro is a licensed social worker practicing in California. She holds a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and brings ten years of professional experience to her work. Teresa focuses on practical help for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps.
She meets each person where they are and listens without judgment. Teresa aims to create a calm space for honest conversation so people can talk through their worries.
Background and approach
She encourages small, manageable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier mood. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She also addresses related issues such as attachment wounds, feelings of abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and difficulty with communication.
Teresa pays attention to how patterns from the past affect current choices and feelings. In sessions she uses straightforward strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She blends relationship-focused work with tools for coping and emotion regulation.
The aim is to help people feel more in control and more connected to what matters to them. Teresa describes therapy as a collaborative process. She supports people as they set goals, practice new skills, and track small changes over time.
Her approach is practical and compassionate, geared toward real-life improvements rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and feelings. It helps people notice patterns tied to trust, closeness, and fear of abandonment and then try newer ways of connecting.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and pace. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is said, and helps the person find their own solutions and strengths.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Teresa will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose methods together. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what feels most useful and realistic for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are helpful for quick check-ins, practicing new skills between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable.
These options let people fit therapy into busy routines, manage symptoms between appointments, and try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English