About Terri
Dr. Terri Lechnyr uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Washington with 19 years of experience.
Her style aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable for busy lives. She focuses on common concerns like grief, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Relationship and intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and panic symptoms are also central to her work.
Background and approach
She often helps people who struggle with social anxiety, isolation, or feelings of guilt and shame. Dr. Lechnyr pays attention to life situations such as cancer and caregiver stress.
She also supports people facing codependency, commitment worries, jealousy, and midlife transitions. Seasonal Affective Disorder and questions about life purpose are part of her practice too. Her sessions combine listening with practical tools.
Techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness are used to calm racing thoughts and shift unhelpful patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps help set small, achievable goals. People who value direct feedback and warmth may find her approach helpful.
She aims to build confidence and a clearer sense of direction. To start, a short matching questionnaire leads to scheduling a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s goals and values. Online sessions using this approach prioritize what matters most to the individual and shape the work around their pace and needs.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and actions. In online sessions, CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, and practical homework to reduce anxiety, panic, and depressive patterns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm racing thoughts and manage stress. These techniques can be practiced during video calls or reinforced with brief text reminders between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaboration means adjusting pace, tools, and focus as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while keeping the work goal-oriented and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Arizona
- Languages
- English