About Teri
Teri Hines is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with twenty years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and stress. She also supports those coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, LGBT-related issues, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach is direct and practical. She creates a calm space where people can talk about hard feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps clients can take between meetings to feel more grounded and in control. Teri uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She pairs that with motivational interviewing to explore what really matters to each person and what might move them toward change.
Solution-focused techniques help set small, achievable goals and track progress over time. Clients can expect straightforward language and a supportive presence. Teri aims to make the work feel manageable, breaking larger problems into concrete, doable actions.
She encourages forgiveness work when guilt or shame are barriers to moving forward. Practicing in Florida as an LMHC, she blends clinical experience with a practical, person-centered style. People who reach out will find a therapist who listens, outlines options, and helps them choose the next step.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change how they feel. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation challenges.Motivational interviewing focuses on a person's own reasons for change. It uses open conversation to strengthen motivation and resolve mixed feelings about steps like cutting back on substances or making lifestyle shifts.
Solution-focused therapy looks for practical, short-term steps that lead to visible progress. It is useful when someone wants to set clear goals and build on small successes.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that match the person's goals, needs, and comfort level, and may combine techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good when visual connection helps the work. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be a simpler option. Live chat and text let people check in between sessions or fit short conversations into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use approaches that fit everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English