- Strengths focused
- Practical strategies
- Grief and transitions
About Thérèse
Thérèse Fletcher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience helping people navigate relationships, loss, stress, and life changes. She practices in a collaborative, person-centered way and focuses on building strengths and practical skills. Thérèse aims to meet people where they are and to help set realistic goals they can work toward.
She has spent much of her career serving highly vulnerable communities in urban settings. That background shaped a flexible approach that blends short-term, solution-focused work with longer-term emotional processing. Clients can expect help with grief, depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, and challenges that spill into relationships, work, or parenting.
Thérèse uses a mix of approaches that include client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, narrative techniques, and solution-focused planning. She emphasizes simple, concrete methods that make day-to-day life more manageable and meaningful. Sessions often include practical steps, accountability, and skills practice between meetings.
She also supports people facing medical, caregiving, or end-of-life concerns, including cancer, hospice, and caregiver stress. Adoption and family-of-origin issues, midlife transitions, money worries, and women’s issues are additional areas she addresses. Thérèse has supervised and trained other social workers during her career.
Based in Illinois, Thérèse works with adults in English and accepts international clients. Her approach is respectful, nonjudgmental, and aimed at helping people regain confidence and a clearer sense of purpose.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Thérèse blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build skills for daily life. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and working at the client's pace to clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can test new ways of coping and reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns of thought and feeling without getting overwhelmed. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, sleeping problems, and managing strong emotions. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together; she will help you choose methods that fit your needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way.
The original biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can guide at-home practice, assign brief exercises between sessions, and use screen-based tools to support learning and progress.
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Experience
13+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Thérèse help with?
She helps with relationship struggles, grief and loss, stress, anxiety, depression, codependency, addictions, and related life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and client-centered, combining practical steps with emotional processing so people can set and reach workable goals.
What background does she bring to sessions?
Thérèse has 13 years of experience, including work in urban settings with vulnerable communities and supervision of other social workers.
What credentials and region are on file?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credentialed in Illinois.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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