About Theresa
Theresa Parris-Perry is a licensed clinical social worker who brings three decades of practice to each session. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and trauma. Her style is grounded and respectful, aiming to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.
Theresa believes clients know their own stories and can use their strengths to make changes. She offers steady guidance while helping clarify goals and small steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and focused on what matters most in day-to-day life. Her background includes long experience in clinical settings across New York. Theresa uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, selecting tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and brief solution-focused strategies.
Theresa often helps people who face parenting strain, addiction concerns, intimacy worries, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports coping with life changes and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. The work balances understanding past patterns with building concrete skills for the present.
People can expect calm listening, practical suggestions, and a collaborative plan. Theresa will work with each person to set realistic steps and adjust the approach as needed. Her aim is to help people feel more confident managing problems and moving toward a more satisfying daily life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. Online sessions using this approach give space for people to tell their stories and set their own goals while the therapist reflects and supports growth.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful patterns, trying small behavioral changes, and practicing new ways of thinking between meetings to reduce anxiety or depression.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and self-awareness skills to reduce reactivity. In video or phone sessions clients learn simple practices and short exercises they can use during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then recommend a mix of methods. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as needed.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, short coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English