About Theresa
Theresa Ewing is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing grief, stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting worries, and career and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, depression, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, and aging or caregiver stress. Theresa is based in Illinois and communicates in English.
Theresa uses straightforward, goal-focused work in sessions. She helps people break big problems into small, doable steps. Sessions often include practical strategies to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and navigate major life changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in healthcare settings where she supported people through end-of-life concerns, hospice and palliative situations, and caregiver strain. That experience shaped a calm, steady approach to difficult topics and to the emotions that come with major life events. Theresa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help people tolerate strong emotions and improve coping. These methods are used in simple, concrete ways during sessions. People who meet with Theresa can expect a collaborative planning process.
She helps set clear goals and makes small action steps to work toward them. The focus is on practical progress and on building skills that can be used between meetings.
CBT and DBT skills for online care
Theresa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT sessions focus on clear steps you can practice between meetings to ease anxiety, lift mood, or improve daily routines.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach ways of tolerating strong emotions and managing stressful moments. DBT tools include grounding and emotion regulation techniques that people can use when they feel overwhelmed.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear. This is a collaborative process where the client’s feedback guides the choices.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging allows regular brief contact. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or medical routines while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English