About Face-It Psychotherapy
Simply Life Changing
Life’s challenges often require the guidance and knowledge of a counseling professional, who has the training and expertise to help you navigate through relational struggles, or individual challenges due to abuse, emotion and/or behavior difficulties. Either in childhood or adult, past or present trauma experiences can lead us down a path towards, anxiety, depression, defeating beliefs, divorce, parenting issues and family conflict, and a profound sense of loss and defensiveness to protect.
Face-It Psychotherapy, LLC., ethos is the belief everyone has the ability to be happier, healthier and productive when they tap into their creative abilities and soul purpose. To know oneself is to know what works for you. Change happens when you have the wisdom, courage, resiliency and believe you can make it possible.
Get to know our therapists and their qualifications, focus areas and interests, by reading about us below.
- In person Palm Harbor Florida
- Online sessions phone, video
- Long and Short Term Counseling
- Individuals aged 5 and above
- Convenient booking options through a dedicated EMR systems and Calendar
About Teresa McKenna, LMHC
Teresa McKenna, LMHC, CCTP, QS is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor registered with Florida Board of Mental Health Counseling and Family Therapy. She is a registered professional with American Psychological Association, SEPI, SAMHSA. She is a licensed Complex Clinical Trauma Professional, licensed CBT-AB), Psychotherapist, Certified DBT, CBT, EMDR, ART, EFT, biofeedback, neurofeedback, grief (CBT-g), parent-child-interactive therapy (PCIT), immigration counseling certified, and Approved Supervisor with FMHCA.
Teresa is the owner and founder of Face-It Psychotherapy, LLC., who has been working for the past 14 years overseas in Ireland, the UK and currently in the US. Teresa is a warm, proactive and understanding therapist who relentlessly explores resiliency and human nature to understand individuals struggles in life. She specializes in healing trauma, family or relationship difficulties, and helps individuals face even the toughest challenges in life and succeed to create the life they want to live. Her main therapeutic orientations is:
Integrative Therapy (IT)
Combining Skills and Techniques from the following modalities:
- Eye Movement Desensitization Resolution EMDR)
- Emotion Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Complex Clinical Trauma (CCTP)
- Integrative Therapy (IT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT)
- Play and Creative Arts Therapy (PT)
- Parent and Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT)
- Creative Arts Therapy (CAT)
- Immigration Therapy (IT)
- Biofeedback (BFB)
- Neurofeedback (NFB) with Quantitative EEG (qEEG)
Education
- CCTP: Clinical Complex Trauma Professional: May 2021
- Master Level counseling courses in various mental health areas, Capella University:
- MA: Pluralist Counseling and Psychotherapy, IICP, Dublin, Ireland
- BA: International Business Administration, Sacred Heart University, CT, USA
- Florida Mental Health Counseling #MH19807
PASSIONATE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTHCARE
Teresa’s sessions are about building a relationship to support the client, to help them make sense of their experience, and to break the patterns of negative experiences for a better quality of life with enhanced resiliency and new coping skills. Though research and workshops, Teresa finds resources that have proven evidence based with researched successful outcomes. Throughout her career, she has always been striving for excellence and building and maintaining safe and trustworthy therapeutic alliance with the clients. She draws on the techniques and skills learned in workshops and specific trauma focused courses and imbeds this information into the treatment. Having worked in schools, crisis centers, community care programs, non-profit and agency, she performs within an integrative stance, working to support the client’s needs and wants from therapy.
Teresa can help you with:
Common psychological difficulties and disorders
Simple phobias, general anxiety disorder, panic attacks, separation anxiety, depression, dysthymia, and many others.
Rare psychological difficulties and disorders
Selective mutism, agoraphobia, reactive attachment disorder of infancy and early childhood, disinhibited social engagement disorder, and others.
Emotional regulation & coping with intensive emotions, emotional meltdowns, tantrums and challenging behaviors
Excitement, anger, disappointment, sadness, fear, failure, jealousy, envy, and others.
Rare conditions connected with chronic illness
Bipolar Disorder, Eating Disorder, PICA, selective mutism, school avoidance, and others.
PTSD and traumatic injuries
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), abuse, domestic violence, accidental injuries, avoidance, reactive attachment issues, and others.
Ex-pat’s and third culture children’s issues
Transition, adaptation, grief, anger, coping.
MEMBER OF
- ACA – American Counseling Association
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- FMHCA – Florida Mental Health Counseling Association
PHILANTROPHY
Giving back to community is something Teresa truly believes in. In addition to her own mission in psychotherapy and counseling services, she believes in missions of others. Throughout her life and professional career she has collaborated with many organizations to support their cause:
- Wounded warrior program an organization that provides post-service needs to veterans through mental health, career counseling and long-term rehabilitative care, along with advocacy efforts. Face-It Psychotherapy, donates a charitable donation to this cause monthly.
- Hope for Children an international charity working towards a world where every child has a happy childhood that sets them up for a positive future. Face-It Psychotherapy, donates a charitable donation to this cause yearly.
- Give an Hour program providing innovative multimodal solutions to accessing equitable mental health services and resources for individuals and communities. Give an Hour provides evidence bases consumer informed therapeutic strategies to those who have experiences human-made trauma. Face-It Psychotherapy donates counseling time to this organization on a weekly basis.
- From 2011-2015 Teresa was mentor and counselor to teenagers in school settings and local community programs providing creative arts, game and workspace therapeutic learning. The mission was to support healthy mental health and providing outreach to those in need.
- From 2013-15 Teresa provided counseling and grief support with Cruse Bereavement Care to children, young people and adults to enhance society's care of bereaved people.
- From 2013-2015 Teresa provided coordination and delivery of programs for NSPCC UK in early school learning communities to children to recognize the signs of abuse and reach out to a trusted adult and Childline for support.
What clients say about working with Teresa McKenna
Clients have kindly offered their testimony to the work we completed together at Face-It Psychotherapy.