Teri Nielsen, LMHC, LCMHC
Washington · 35 years in practice
Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of experience offering therapy from Utah.
License and registration
- LMHC, Washington
- LH00006803 · expires December 2026
- LCMHC, Utah
- 7825680-6004 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1881667186 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 35
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Teri
Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health counselor with 35 years of experience offering therapy from Utah. She brings long clinical experience and a clear, active style to sessions. Teri draws on both inpatient and outpatient work and a long personal practice of mindfulness.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She often helps people untangle relationship and family problems. She works with trauma and abuse, PTSD, anxiety, stress, addiction recovery, and blended family issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career shifts, midlife questions, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Teri combines systemic thinking with attachment-based and client-centered ideas to understand how people relate to one another. She uses cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused work to address patterns that keep people stuck.
Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help manage anxiety and addictive behaviors. Her style is active and direct. She asks clear questions and offers tools to try between sessions.
She also draws on life experience as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother to relate to everyday family and personal struggles. Teri has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and practices Vipassana meditation, which shape how she works with concentration and emotional regulation. She welcomes people who are ready to be honest and do the work needed to change.
If someone is prepared to commit to the process, she helps them build practical skills and stronger relationships.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Teri lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
Approaches Teri names
- Systemic Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Systemic therapy looks at how relationships and daily patterns shape problems. Online sessions let the therapist and client map patterns in interactions and try new responses in real time. This approach is useful for tackling recurring family or relational cycles and for seeing how small changes affect the whole system.Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current closeness and trust. In video or phone sessions the therapist helps people notice emotional habits and practice different ways of relating. This work often helps with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and building emotional safety in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and emotional nuance. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or ongoing coaching possible between longer appointments. These options help therapy fit around work, family, and other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Teri works with relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, PTSD, anxiety, stress, addictions, parenting concerns, grief, self-esteem, and related issues listed in her specialties.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is active and direct. She combines practical tools, mindfulness exercises, and relational work to help people change behaviors and cope with stress.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 35 years of combined inpatient and outpatient experience working with adults, adolescents, children, and family-related concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LMHC and LCMHC and practices from Utah, with license details showing WA LMHC and UT LCMHC in her credentials.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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