Teresa Cole, LPCC
California · 16 years in practice
Teresa Cole is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California with 16 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPCC, California
- 1820 · expires December 2027
- NPI
- 1841847332 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
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About Teresa
Teresa Cole is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California with 16 years of clinical experience. She combines emotionally-focused work with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Her style is direct and collaborative, aimed at helping clients find clearer ways forward.
Teresa often uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral approaches. She helps people address trauma and grief, and supports those coping with addictions, career shifts, and identity questions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding feelings, building healthier patterns, and developing skills to manage difficult moments. She has particular experience supporting people with attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, and communication or commitment concerns. Teresa also works with issues related to autism spectrum conditions, chronic health challenges, and caregiver stress.
Her background includes work with first responder concerns and complex family dynamics. Her approach balances talking through emotional patterns with practical exercises and psychoeducation. Clients can expect goal-focused sessions that also make space for deeper emotional processing.
Teresa emphasizes building tools that can be used between sessions to handle everyday stressors and relationship moments. Theresa uses a variety of session formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She supports people who want coaching-style help, therapy for life transitions, or intensive work on trauma and attachment.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Teresa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Approaches Teresa names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Emotion and Skills Work Delivered Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift patterns in close relationships by focusing on the underlying emotions that drive behaviors. It is useful for couples or individuals who want to change how they respond to one another and feel more connected to their own emotions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical ways to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action aligned with personal values. It works well for anxiety, stress, and life changes where building flexible coping matters more than eliminating hard feelings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relational patterns affect current relationships and helps people form more supported and effective ways of relating. This approach can help with abandonment worries, commitment issues, and communication struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means combining emotional processing with skills practice when that best serves the client.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction helps the work. Phone calls can fit a tight schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy lives.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Teresa help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related problems. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and career changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends emotionally-focused work with practical, goal-oriented exercises. Sessions aim to name emotional patterns and build skills that can be used day to day.
What is her professional background?
She has 16 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, relationship and identity issues. That background informs a mix of emotional processing and skills training.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, practicing in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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