Teri Struthers, LPCC

Teri Struthers is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She draws on a long career that also includes nursing, military life, and college-level teaching. Her work emphasizes practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain.

Her approach centers on the therapy relationship and clear, doable strategies. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques alongside client-centered conversation and solution-focused planning. Sessions focus on identifying patterns, trying small changes, and tracking what works in daily life.

Teri pays attention to how a person’s beliefs, roles, and relationships affect emotional health. She helps people notice strengths, accept responsibility for change, and set realistic goals. She also integrates each person’s spiritual perspective when that matters to them.

Clients can expect a calm, direct style that balances listening with practical suggestions. Work might include skill practice for anxiety, restructuring thoughts that deepen depression, or focused plans for improving communication. Progress is measured in concrete steps rather than abstract promises.

Her background in nursing and teaching informs a practical, education-oriented method. That experience supports work with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and blended family problems, caregiver stress, workplace challenges, ADHD-related concerns, and midlife transitions. Teri is based in Minnesota and offers services in English.

Practical approaches for online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a nonjudgmental conversation where the client leads the topics and the therapist reflects concerns and strengths. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies personal goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many daily challenges.

Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on goals and small steps that can be tried between sessions. It is useful when someone wants a short-term plan to move past a specific problem or decision.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what is not.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports brief coaching and ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.