Teri Nielsen, LMHC, LCMHC

Teri Nielsen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 35 years of experience. She practices in Utah and has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings with people facing relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, addiction recovery, and blended family issues.

She moved to southern Utah after many years in Seattle and brings those decades of practice into each session. Her approach is active and direct. She combines evidence-informed approaches with experiential work and mindfulness skills to address patterns that keep people stuck.

Many clients who come to her are professionals, first responders, healthcare workers, therapists, or people returning to therapy to take a different path. She also works with people who are new to therapy and want to build stronger emotional skills. Sessions often focus on practical strategies for stress, sleep, and coping with life changes as well as relationship and parenting concerns.

Teri uses attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, and emotionally-focused techniques depending on the issue at hand. She draws on mindfulness practices she has taught, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and on experiential methods such as Jungian-informed exploration and Vipassana meditation principles.

Her style asks for active participation. She encourages honesty, curiosity, and steady effort. The emphasis is on clear steps clients can try between sessions to shift thinking, manage emotions, and change behaviors.