- 35 years experience
- Mindfulness informed
- Relationship focus
About Teri
Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health counselor with LMHC and LCMHC credentials and 35 years of clinical experience. She has worked in both in-patient and out-patient settings and brings a practical, straightforward style to therapy. Teri aims to create a safe space where people can address what is holding them back and move forward.
She has worked in Seattle and now lives in southern Utah, drawn to the landscape and slower pace. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, stress disorders, addiction recovery, and blended family issues. She also supports people facing spiritual crisis and those seeking a steadier emotional foundation.
Teri's approach is active and direct. She draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, emotionally-focused work, cognitive-behavioral tools, and existential perspectives to shape practical steps clients can try between sessions. Mindfulness practices and meditation inform much of her work, including elements from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
She often collaborates with people who have professional stress or who have been in therapy before and want a more integrative approach. She also works with people new to therapy who want to build emotional skills. Teri values lived experience and brings her roles as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother into how she understands people's lives.
Her style asks for commitment and honesty. She encourages clients to bring grit and readiness to change. Teri helps people notice the thoughts that shape their choices and uses practical methods to support more resilient responses to life challenges.
She has worked in Seattle and now lives in southern Utah, drawn to the landscape and slower pace. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, stress disorders, addiction recovery, and blended family issues. She also supports people facing spiritual crisis and those seeking a steadier emotional foundation.
Teri's approach is active and direct. She draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, emotionally-focused work, cognitive-behavioral tools, and existential perspectives to shape practical steps clients can try between sessions. Mindfulness practices and meditation inform much of her work, including elements from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
She often collaborates with people who have professional stress or who have been in therapy before and want a more integrative approach. She also works with people new to therapy who want to build emotional skills. Teri values lived experience and brings her roles as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother into how she understands people's lives.
Her style asks for commitment and honesty. She encourages clients to bring grit and readiness to change. Teri helps people notice the thoughts that shape their choices and uses practical methods to support more resilient responses to life challenges.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.