Teri Nielsen
Experienced therapist blending mindfulness and CBT
LMHC, LCMHC Utah
- Experience
- 35 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Teri
Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of combined in-patient and out-patient experience.
Background and approach
She has worked across the lifespan with adults, adolescents, children, and families, focusing on relationship difficulties, complex and childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, stress disorders, addiction recovery, and blended or extended family concerns. Teri blends evidence-informed methods with a trauma-aware perspective and draws on long experience teaching mindfulness-based approaches to reduce anxiety and address addictive patterns.
Her practice reflects an active, direct style that values both clinical training and life experience. Teri mixes client-centered listening with cognitive approaches and attachment-informed work to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new relational skills.
She emphasizes compassion and practical change, inviting clients to bring honesty, commitment, and willingness to engage in the therapeutic process. Based in Utah after a long career in Seattle, she offers services informed by 35 years of clinical work and ongoing personal practice in meditation and reflective approaches.
Therapeutic approaches and the benefits of online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is practical and skill-oriented, often used for anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and difficulties that benefit from structured tools and problem solving.Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relational patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses. This approach helps people understand attachment dynamics, improve intimacy, and shift repeated interpersonal patterns that contribute to distress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to clarify goals, consider personal preferences, and combine methods when appropriate so the plan fits the client's needs and evolves over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and varied routines. These formats allow consistent access to licensed professionals and support for managing relationships, trauma recovery, anxiety, and life transitions without the need to attend in-person sessions.
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Experience
35+ years
Licensed
Washington, Utah
Languages
English