Teresa Fowler, LPC

Teresa Fowler is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strains, career questions, relationship and family concerns, and issues around grief, trauma, intimacy, and ADHD. Teresa works with people who are wrestling with burnout, compassion fatigue, or major life changes and want practical ways to cope.

Teresa describes her approach as person-centered and compassionate. She listens closely and helps clients name what matters to them. Sessions focus on building skills, finding small steps forward, and using a person’s strengths to solve problems that feel overwhelming.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - alongside acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, and client-centered care. That means she helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior, practice new responses, and make values-based choices. Sessions mix skill practice, emotional exploration, and goal setting.

Teresa also pays attention to life circumstances such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, disability-related barriers, and the effects of major medical issues. She supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, addiction, and domestic violence when those topics come up in individual work.

Teresa offers sessions in English and American Sign Language. She is based in Michigan and brings practical, steady support to people who want clearer coping tools and a collaborative plan for change.

How Teresa's Approaches Work Online

Teresa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in sessions online. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking and practice new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. ACT focuses on values and acceptance, helping people act toward what matters even when strong feelings are present.

She combines those methods with a client-centered stance, which means she adapts the work to each person's goals and pace. Figuring out which approach fits best is a collaborative step. Teresa will talk through options, try techniques together, and adjust based on what helps the client make steady progress.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options aim to make regular work on skills and goals easier to fit into a busy life while keeping the therapeutic focus intact.