Teresa Adams, LPC

Teresa Adams is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on marriage, family, and relationship concerns. She combines formal training with decades of personal experience to support couples and families facing stress, anxiety, communication challenges, infidelity, parenting concerns, life changes, and intimacy-related issues. Teresa holds a B.S. in Food and Nutrition from Mississippi University for Women and an M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary, and she supplements that academic foundation with focused certifications and trainings. She is Gottman I Certified and has earned Prepare/Enrich and SYMBIS assessment certifications, along with continuing education in anxiety, depression, stress, conflict resolution, communication, and sexual issues.

Teresa has also coauthored a marriage manual titled Marriage: What To Do Before and After You Say, "I Do", reflecting her practical approach to relationship education. As a Christian counselor with Biblical training, she integrates clients’ values and faith when appropriate, offering compassionate guidance without judgment. Teresa brings warmth and directness to her work, asking the hard questions when necessary and helping families and couples build more manageable, peaceful lives. She and her husband have been married for 38 years and raised four children, a lived experience that informs her perspective on family dynamics and long-term relationships.

Online Relationship and Family Therapy Approaches

Teresa Adams uses established methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method to address relationship and emotional challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, stress, and coping difficulties, offering practical tools to manage day-to-day struggles. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication, reducing conflict patterns, and strengthening emotional connection between partners using research-based interventions that are useful for couples working through trust, intimacy, or repeated conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Teresa collaborates with each client to determine which methods best align with their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions to fit individual and family circumstances and adjusts the plan over time as progress is made and priorities evolve.

Online therapy with Teresa is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and easier access for busy schedules or long-distance clients. These formats allow ongoing support, convenient scheduling, and consistent contact so clients can work on communication skills, stress management, relationship repair, and parenting strategies from their own settings with a licensed professional.