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Terese Ghilarducci, LMFT

  • Experience25 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Relationship
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Terese

Terese Ghilarducci is an LMFT with 25 years of experience who centers her work on client-focused therapy and practical skills. Based in California, she brings decades of experience supporting adolescents and families through school-related challenges, emotional distress, and behavioral concerns.

Background and approach

Her background as a social worker with foster children and as a long-time school counselor informs a compassionate, developmentally attuned approach that includes art and journaling as tools for self-expression.

Her practice emphasizes addressing stress, anxiety, depression, school phobia, substance concerns, and relationship and family issues among a broad set of focus areas including ADHD, trauma, grief, parenting struggles, and codependency. Terese combines client-centered listening with evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies to help clients build coping skills and practical plans for change.

She also offers solution-focused work to identify achievable goals and steps forward. Terese’s counseling experience spans alternative education sites and elementary settings, where she led classroom presentations on bullying, inclusion, and coping strategies and facilitated support groups.

Clients can expect a warm, respectful clinician who uses creativity alongside structured therapeutic methods to support recovery, growth, and improved daily functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Terese integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online work in a practical, supportive way. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and tailoring sessions to each person’s perspective, which helps build trust and clarify personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete strategies for managing anxiety, mood concerns, and stress.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. She works with clients to explore which methods feel most helpful, combining empathy, skill-building, and short-term goal planning so the therapeutic path reflects each person’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for scheduling and communication style. These options make it easier to access care around school, work, or family responsibilities and allow consistent follow-up between appointments. The variety of formats supports different goals, whether one prefers real-time conversational work, brief check-ins, or written reflection between sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does this therapist address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, addictions, ADHD, and related issues such as school phobia and substance concerns.
What therapeutic styles are used in sessions?
Her practice uses a client-centered foundation combined with cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused work to help clients build coping skills and set practical goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience, including work as a social worker with foster children and many years as a school counselor serving adolescents and elementary students.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with the credential CA LMFT 36326 and practices in the state of California.
Can clients expect services in other languages or from abroad?
Sessions are provided in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are offered for online care?
Available formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How does payment or cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingIntellectual disabilityLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

25+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English

What Terese can help with

Terese Ghilarducci works with clients on stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, depression, and coping with life changes.

Terese works with high school students and their families.

Terese is a former social worker who worked with foster children and their foster families.

Terese works with adolescents.

Terese works with issues around school phobia.

How Terese approaches therapy

Terese's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Terese is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California, with 25 years of clinical experience.