About Theresa
Theresa Connelly is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Pennsylvania. She has six years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and low self-esteem. Theresa focuses on practical skills people can use right away to feel steadier in daily life.
Her approach is calm and collaborative. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, doable goals. Sessions often include learning ways to cope with strong emotions and trying new habits that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Theresa also works with people facing big life changes like divorce, caregiving responsibilities, job stress, or midlife shifts. She helps people talk through relationship and family problems and cope with loss, end-of-life concerns, or fertility-related stress. The work combines emotional support with problem-solving steps.
Trauma and abuse are handled with care and attention to pacing. Theresa uses trauma-focused methods alongside mindfulness and cognitive strategies to reduce distress and rebuild daily routines. She helps people notice patterns and choose different responses over time.
In sessions clients can expect straightforward language and a focus on what’s useful now. Theresa helps people find meaning, restore energy, and plan next steps. For many, the aim is greater confidence, clearer priorities, and more manageable days.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflecting what matters and helping them name feelings and priorities. This approach is useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental place to sort things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it offers clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Theresa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then choose or combine methods that fit. The plan can change as progress is made, and goals are revisited in collaboration.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversations and exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let someone share thoughts between meetings or get support when writing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English