Teri Nielsen, LMHC, LCMHC

Teri Nielsen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 35 years of in-patient and out-patient experience supporting adults, adolescents, children, and families across a wide range of concerns. Her work focuses on relationships, complex childhood trauma within families, PTSD, anxiety and stress disorders, addiction recovery, blended and extended family issues, and spiritual crisis. LMHC and LCMHC are professional credentials that indicate licensure to provide mental health counseling and clinical services.

She practiced for 28 years in Seattle before relocating in 2016 to southern Utah, drawn by the landscape and the red rocks. Teri brings deep respect for personal struggle and confidence in the therapeutic process based on transformations she has witnessed in the lives of the men, women, and young people she has served. Many clients are high-functioning professionals, first responders, healthcare workers, or therapists seeking a more integrative approach, while others are new to therapy and seeking a firmer foundation for emotional health.

Teri’s style is active and direct, informed by trauma-aware and evidence-based methods. She draws on Jungian and experiential perspectives along with Rational Emotive and mindfulness-informed cognitive therapies. She has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and incorporates practices that address anxiety and the roots of addictive behaviors. A long-term practitioner of Vipassana meditation since 1993, she integrates lived experience as a woman, daughter, sister, wife, and mother into her work. Teri encourages compassionate growth and asks that those who seek her help bring grit, honesty, and a strong commitment to themselves.

Approaches That Guide Online Therapy and Connection

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes the ways early bonds shape current relationships. Online work with this approach helps clients explore patterns of trust, abandonment, and connection, and supports healthier ways of relating to partners and family.

Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s experience at the center of treatment. Through empathic listening and collaborative pacing, this approach helps people build self-awareness, self-acceptance, and the confidence to address issues like life transitions, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. In online sessions CBT offers practical tools to manage anxiety, stress, addictive patterns, and mood challenges by identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing alternative responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Teri works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and life demands. For many people this accessibility makes regular work on healing and growth easier to maintain while still receiving support from licensed professionals and therapists trained in targeted approaches.