About Terese
Terese Fagan is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in Connecticut for over 11 years. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, grief, addiction concerns, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Terese treats each person as the expert on their life. She helps them name their strengths and set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical, focused, and paced to fit a person’s needs. Terese uses approaches that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and practical problem solving. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and act on it.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Her style is warm and straightforward. She aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few visits.
People leave sessions with simple tools they can try between meetings. Terese’s work covers many everyday and life-stage stresses. She helps with family of origin issues, body image and attachment concerns, coping after divorce or loss, and the strain of caregiving.
Her practice supports people through clear steps and steady encouragement.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Terese commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify their values, notice painful thoughts without getting stuck, and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress.Finding the right approach happens together. Terese will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most workable. She adjusts methods over time and checks in to make sure the plan matches what the person needs and wants.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit different schedules. Video provides face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and flexible pacing between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English