About Thérèse
Thérèse Fletcher uses a collaborative, strengths-based approach grounded in her LCSW training to help people move through difficult moments and build lasting skills.
Background and approach
With 13 years of experience in medical and social services, she draws on practical methods to address relationship concerns, grief and loss, transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, addiction issues, and the emotional impact of chronic illness. Her work emphasizes setting realistic goals and creating concrete strategies that enhance confidence and daily functioning.
She has spent much of her career supporting highly vulnerable communities in urban settings and has supervised and trained other social workers. Thérèse blends short-term solution-focused techniques with longer-term emotional processing depending on a client's needs, and she incorporates approaches such as client-centered care, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and narrative practices.
Always grounded in respect, she frames therapy as a partnership and aims to meet people where they are while helping them develop tools to make life more fulfilling. Thérèse accepts international clients and offers several remote formats.
She encourages those feeling overwhelmed to take the initial step of reaching out and to consider therapy as a place to explore change without judgment.
Practical approaches for online work and remote support
Thérèse commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on building a respectful therapeutic relationship and prioritizing the client's perspective to help identify goals and personal strengths. This approach supports many concerns including relationship strain, grief, and low self-esteem by centering the client's experience and pacing work according to readiness.She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a skills-oriented method that examines links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps clients develop practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, stress, and addictive patterns. Combining CBT with mindfulness techniques can help people notice unhelpful patterns and practice present-moment awareness for emotional regulation and stress reduction.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process, and she approaches that choice collaboratively. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, test approaches, and adjust methods based on what fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Thérèse is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which provides flexibility for scheduling and allows people to engage from locations that work for them. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English