Warm, Proactive and
Understanding Therapists
Warm, Proactive and
Understanding Therapists

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.

Teresa McKenna - Psychotherapist

Teresa McKenna

MA, LMHC, QS, CCTP-II

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:

Education

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

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:

What clients say about working with Teresa McKenna

Clients have kindly offered their testimony to the work we completed together at Face-It Psychotherapy.

Let's Face It Together!
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