Due to extensive formal education in clinical psychology, health psychology, psychotherapy and counselling alongside additional training and almost 14 years of applied clinical experience, Teresa is able to integrate and combine different therapeutic approaches to deliver efficient and individually tailored-made interventions and treatment. Terea’s main therapeutic approach is Integrative Therapy (IT).  In her work with adults, Teresa mainly combines the following therapeutic approaches:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT)
• Play and Creative Arts Therapy (PT)
• Creative Arts Therapy (CAT)
• Mindfulness
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Narrative Therapy (NT)
• Jungian Analytical Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Our job is to work together to understand your experience, make sense of why things are happening, understand your feelings and behaviors, find ways to make things better, assist you in managing your difficulties, improve your strengths and resilience, improve your quality of life, and support you on your life journey. Together, we will explore how you think about a situation and how this affects the way you feel and act. In turn, your actions can affect how you think and feel. Mind and body are connected so we will pay attention on the way your body feels because it is linked to your emotions and thoughts.

Terea takes mental health a step further. She believes mental health care needs to focus on prevention of mental health difficulties, resilience and promotion of holistic health alongside work on mental health issues and illness. Both individual and group work are available. Group work can be delivered in premises of Face-It Psychotherapy, LLC in Palm Harbor Florida but also on other locations upon agreement. Following groups for adults are currently available:

• Therapeutic Groups
• Mummy Mornings
• Parenting Hacks
• Individual Therapy

If you have the need for some other specific kind of program or group work, Teresa will be very happy to talk to you and to develop and deliver a specific tailor-made program that suits your needs.

If you want to make healthy changes in your life or you are dealing with an illness or facing some other health problems, seeing a health psychologist is one way to help start you off on the right foot. Teresa is dedicated in providing ways of healthier, better and longer life for her clients. She is specialized and experienced in working with chronic illness and conditions and subspecialized in trauma therapy.  The aims of health psychology interventions both for patients and their families/carers are:

• promoting holistic health and well-being
• developing/improving healthy lifestyle
• preventing illness
• providing support when diagnosed
• facilitate adaptive adjustment to illness and treatment
• develop or improve coping skills with short- and long-term condition or disease
• cognitive behavioral (CBT) interventions
• creative arts therapy (CAT) interventions
• pain management
• stress management
• relaxation program
• providing specific therapy and support groups
• improving quality of life

Counselling is used to work with people who are experiencing less intense difficulties that require usually short-term treatment or intervention. The focus of counselling is more likely to be on specific problems, changes in life adjustments and fostering clients’ wellbeing. Counselling helps to resolve emotional, psychological and relationship issues. Person may be experiencing difficult and distressing events in their lives, such as bereavement, divorce, difficulties in romantic relationship, self-esteem issues, workplace issues or health problems. Or they may have more general underlying feelings of anxiety or dissatisfaction with the life. Together with the client it is discussed which type of services and length of work would work best, taking into account needs of the client, issues and overall circumstances.

Time to relax, enjoy and have some “ME” time. Safe space for stimulative discussions in closed group with focus on self-care, self-acceptance, positivity and mindfulness. Our discussions are based on topics important to participants. Sometimes being a Mum might overshadow other roles that we all have in life – being a sister, daughter, friend, wife/partner, employee, boss, volunteer and others. This is a space to explore how becoming a Mum changed your life. Also, this is a safe space to unload potential difficulties, limitations, frustrations that might rise from the role of being Mum. At the same time, this is a space to celebrate your wonderful self from the perspective of all the roles you have in your life. Tea & cookies will be served on each session.

In-home therapy and home visits are a way to support client and his family when he/she can’t leave their home for various reasons. Psychological assessment, counselling, therapy and interventions are being offered through this service. The biggest advantages of home visits are that the services can be delivered to those who have difficulties or are unable to leave their home, home visits are comfortable for clients and gives opportunity to assess and intervene in the context.

It is the responsibility of the client to ensure privacy and confidentiality during the home visit.