Teddi Plummer, LPCC

Teddi Plummer is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with nine years of counseling experience in California. She brings a supportive, encouraging style that aims to build hope and motivation in clients. Teddi respects faith and spirituality and often incorporates a client's beliefs when they are important to recovery.

Teddi has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, from anxiety and depression to substance use and trauma. Her background includes crisis work in emergency settings and experience with more severe mental health conditions. She has also helped people dealing with relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, and eating or sleep problems.

Her approach blends practical strategies and skills practice. Teddi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to support emotional regulation and values-based action.

Teddi has led groups for anger management, parenting, and addiction recovery, and she is a certified SMART Recovery facilitator and Nurturing Parenting facilitator. She has experience co-facilitating DBT groups and running batterer intervention sessions that teach coping tools for managing anger.

She values each person's unique needs and often explores how faith or spirituality can support healing. Teddi speaks English, works with adult and youth histories in clinical settings, and provides several online formats to fit busy lives.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and shifting behaviors. It often uses worksheets, short experiments, and homework tasks that translate easily to video or messaging formats to help with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take action even when emotions are difficult. It uses mindfulness and goal-setting exercises that can be practiced between sessions and reviewed over video or text.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills are often practiced in sessions and applied in daily life, and coaches can review progress through phone or messaging check-ins.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. Plans can be adjusted as progress and preferences become clear.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for full conversation and worksheets, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel.