- Attachment-based approach
- Mindfulness and CBT
- 30 years experience
About Therese
Therese Schmoll is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or struggling with relationship or sleep concerns.
She trained at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology, where she specialized in clinical psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy. She uses that background to guide practical conversations about day-to-day struggles. Sessions are aimed at clear steps people can try between meetings.
Therese works with a wide range of concerns, including depression, addictions, eating issues, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing intimacy and relationship challenges, parenting stress, and the particular pressures that come with career and life transitions.
Her approach often draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness practices. Those methods are used to help people name patterns, try different behaviors, and reduce the cycle of worry and sleeplessness.
Therese frames change as a practical process. She helps clients set small, realistic goals and track progress over time. Her experience includes many years in mental health and human services before private practice, and she brings that perspective to practical problem solving in sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work in her practice focuses on how early relationship patterns show up now; online sessions look at current connections and everyday reactions and help people try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and developing goals the client cares about; online meetings are used to listen closely and co-create next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to change outcomes, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed remotely.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods so they match the client's needs. Clients are encouraged to give feedback and adjust the plan as they go.
Session formats are not specified in the supplied biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy weeks, cut out travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It also helps people practice skills in the settings where they live and sleep so progress can be observed and tweaked between meetings.
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Experience
30+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does this therapist address?
Therese helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, sleep concerns, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and related areas listed in her specialties.
What is her general therapy style?
She combines client-centered listening with practical techniques from attachment work, CBT, and mindfulness to help people identify patterns and try concrete changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of experience in the mental health and human services field, including work after graduating from Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology.
What credentials and region are listed for this therapist?
She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist listed as LMFT and practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
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