Therese Schmoll, LMFT

Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience in mental health and human services. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical steps that people can use right away. Many seek her help for depression, anxiety, relationship strain, and problems with addiction. Therese trained at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology where she studied clinical psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy. She now practices privately in California and works with people facing grief, eating or sleeping difficulties, and trauma and abuse. She also supports clients dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques when needed and encourages mindfulness and reflection to build daily coping skills. Sessions are conversational and focused on identifying patterns and workable changes. Therese often helps people facing relationship and intimacy issues, communication problems, infidelity, blended family challenges, and divorce or separation. She also addresses concerns around parenting, fertility, and end-of-life planning in hospice and related settings. Practical problem solving is a core part of her work. She also pays attention to how past wounds affect current behavior, including patterns of codependency, dependent personality tendencies, and attachment struggles. People looking for steady, experienced guidance often choose her for long-standing or complex problems.