Teresa Gehman, LMHC

Teresa Gehman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, and issues connected to LGBT identity. Teresa brings three decades of clinical experience to sessions and aims to create a welcoming, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult moments.

She uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Conversations focus on practical steps and on building clearer patterns of thinking and behavior. Teresa draws on tools that help people manage overwhelming feelings, handle life changes, and repair communication problems.

Her work often addresses attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, body image and eating issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and grief tied to illness or loss. She also helps people facing anger, low self-esteem, and the complicated effects of trauma and abuse. Teresa pays attention to how life events and roles affect day-to-day functioning.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to small, doable changes between meetings. She adapts methods from acceptance-based strategies and cognitive behavioral ideas when those match a person’s goals. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify next steps and build momentum.

Teresa practices in New York and conducts work in English. She has extensive experience across a wide range of concerns and welcomes questions about whether her approach fits your situation.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Teresa draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts without getting swept away by them, and to clarify personal values that can guide everyday choices. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at a person’s own pace so they feel understood and respected. This approach helps build trust and supports people who have felt dismissed or judged in the past.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Teresa will help figure out which methods feel most helpful based on a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time if different tools would be more useful.

Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use approaches like ACT and client-centered conversation in familiar surroundings and work on skills between meetings.