Dr. Teresa Grear, LCSW, CSW

Dr. Teresa Grear offers practical, straightforward support using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a client-centered stance. She focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and helps people develop clearer coping skills for stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles.

Dr. Grear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and also holds CSW. She brings 20 years of professional experience to sessions in Georgia. Her work covers depression, anger, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and issues that touch identity such as LGBT matters.

In sessions she pays attention to what matters most to each person. She listens for values, patterns, and habits that get in the way of goals. Together she helps set small, doable steps so daily life feels more manageable and purposeful.

Her approach blends practical problem solving with attention to emotional life. That means using tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior alongside conversations about attachment, meaning, and connection. Clients often work on communication, boundaries, and managing strong feelings.

Therapy also addresses role-specific stresses like caregiving strain, professional burnout, blended family challenges, and substance concerns. She supports people dealing with family of origin wounds, commitment problems, codependency, and sexuality-related questions.

People looking to begin are guided through a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling process. Dr. Grear works with international clients and offers multiple remote session formats to fit different schedules and needs.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Dr. Grear commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in remote sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior; it is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and addiction-related behaviors. ACT helps people clarify personal values and take committed action even when difficult feelings are present, which supports coping with life changes and grief.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist talks with each person about goals, past efforts, and preferences, and together they decide which blend of methods to use. Adaptations for online work are discussed so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.