- CBT skills
- EMDR for trauma
- Motivational interviewing
About Teresa
Teresa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Montana with 20 years of experience. She works with people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship and family concerns, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also addresses issues like sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Teresa trained in social work at the University of Montana and completed her LCSW in 2003. She has worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient, and inpatient psychiatric settings. Those roles gave her experience with co-occurring medical and mental health issues and with people at different stages of recovery.
Her approach centers on client-centered therapy, which means she supports people to keep control of their goals and decisions. She uses practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address thought and behavior patterns. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and take concrete steps toward them.
For people who have anxiety, panic, PTSD, or trauma-related symptoms, she offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR. She has long experience working with addictions and with co-occurring disorders, and she uses motivational interviewing and rational emotive behavior techniques when useful.
Teresa aims to focus on the goals each person brings to therapy. She emphasizes straightforward, collaborative work on patterns that started in the family of origin and now affect daily life. To begin, she asks people to describe their concerns and priorities so sessions address what matters most to them.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and patterns tied to family of origin expectations.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns and replace them with more useful ones. It is often applied to anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and stress-related concerns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is offered for people who have anxiety, panic, PTSD, or trauma-related symptoms. EMDR sessions use structured sets of techniques to work with distressing memories and the reactions they trigger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to choose or combine methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and skill work over time.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life by reducing travel time and allowing appointments during short breaks or between other commitments. Phone or video work can also be adapted to lower-bandwidth connections, shorter check-ins, or longer skill-practice sessions depending on what the client needs.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Montana
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family issues, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and related problems such as sleep, anger, and self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered style and brings practical techniques from CBT, DBT, and ACT to work on thoughts, behaviors, and values.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience and has worked in outpatient, intensive outpatient, and inpatient psychiatric settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Montana.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does billing and starting work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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