Theresa Yu
Experienced counselor focused on practical change
LCMHC, LPC Oklahoma
- Experience
- 9 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
About Theresa
Theresa Yu is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy that helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
Theresa speaks English and Mandarin and offers sessions to clients in Oklahoma and beyond. Theresa shapes sessions around what works best for each person.
She blends approaches to give concrete tools for change, like skills for coping with strong emotions and ways to improve communication. Parents and caregivers often come for help with behavior, attachment concerns, or the strain of caregiving.
Her background includes work in child welfare, special education, school settings, and behavioral health case management. That hands-on experience informs how she supports people to handle complicated family histories, adoption and foster care issues, and developmental or neurodiversity-related concerns.
Theresa uses a mix of therapies to match a client's needs, including the Gottman Method ideas for relationship work, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, and attachment-focused work to repair connection. She aims to offer clear strategies you can try between sessions.
In sessions she listens without judgment, offers encouragement, and sometimes gently challenges unhelpful patterns. Therapy often focuses on building skills for daily life: sleeping and eating routines, managing anger, coping with transitions, and addressing addictive behaviors.
Theresa invites people to try therapy and see if the fit feels right.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Theresa uses a few core approaches to shape online work. The Gottman Method ideas focus on improving communication, reducing conflict, and rebuilding connection in close relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match your values, which helps with anxiety and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection rooted in early relationships and can help with trust, abandonment concerns, and intimacy issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Theresa will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together they choose methods that feel useful. That collaborative planning means therapy can shift as needs change, blending strategies like cognitive-behavioral skill practice with attachment-focused conversations when appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit your life. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to work on stress, relationships, trauma recovery, and daily routines without rearranging large parts of life.
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Experience
9+ years
Licensed in
Oklahoma, New Hampshire
Languages
English, Mandarin