Thérèse Fletcher, LCSW

Thérèse Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience. She uses practical, focused methods to help people face hard moments and regain a sense of direction. She aims to work side by side with clients to set clear goals and build useful skills.

Thérèse draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions. She combines that with client-centered listening so people feel understood while they explore change. Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used when slowing down and re-framing life stories can reduce stress or reopen hope.

Her background includes long experience in medical and social services in urban settings. She has also supervised and trained other social workers, bringing practical case experience to sessions. That history informs a down-to-earth approach to problems like grief, depression, anxiety, and addiction concerns.

Thérèse helps people work through relationship strain, career transitions, parenting stress, and the challenges of caregiving or chronic illness. She offers both short-term solution-focused work and longer-term emotional processing depending on what each person needs. Her style is respectful, strengths-based, and goal oriented.

People who choose her can expect straightforward guidance, accountability, and tools to keep using after sessions end. She accepts clients in Illinois and internationally and conducts sessions in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step is used to connect with her.

How cognitive and client-centered work translates online

Thérèse commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT-style exercises often involve setting small behavioral experiments or practicing different responses to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change mood patterns.

She also practices client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on active listening and reflecting what matters to the person in front of her. That approach helps people feel heard while they set goals, clarify values, and decide what changes to try next. Together they may add mindfulness practices to reduce intensity of strong emotions or narrative techniques to reframe difficult life stories.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Therapy plans can start with short problem-focused steps or move into longer emotional processing depending on what the client wants.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, quick tools, and people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling easier and help sessions fit into busy lives.