Audrey Teshima

Audrey Teshima is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship conflict. She frames sessions around strengths and practical steps so clients can move toward clearer decisions and calmer days. Her style is grounded and compassionate, intended to make conversations feel manageable even when feelings are big.

Audrey brings a decade of clinical experience and a background as a public school teacher. That mix shaped how she works with people from many walks of life and with different daily demands. She has worked in private practice, community mental health and substance use clinics, and inside elementary, middle, and high schools.

Her approach blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, and motivational interviewing. Mindfulness techniques are also part of sessions to help people notice reactions and choose different responses in stressful moments.

Audrey integrates Biblically based Christian principles when that fits a client's values, and she aims for a gentle, balanced way of guiding conversations. She focuses on concrete goals like improving communication, setting boundaries, or managing career stress so people can practice new skills between sessions.

People come to Audrey for parenting and co-parenting help, family conflict, self-esteem work, grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, and career or life transition support. She works with each person to build more resilient, hope-filled routines one step at a time.

How Audrey Uses Mindfulness and Practical Therapy Online

Mindfulness Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without judgment. This simple practice can help reduce reactivity, ease stress, and make it easier to choose new responses during difficult moments. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding a person's perspective so they feel heard and can lead the goals of therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches concrete skills to change thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or stress.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. Audrey will collaborate with clients to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and values. She uses client feedback and practical checking-in to adjust tools and homework so the plan stays useful and relevant.

Please confirm the current session formats before booking, as specific online options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, scheduling during a work break or joining from different locations when needed. It also enables shorter check-ins or skill-focused meetings that slot into a day more easily than travel to an office. Licensed professionals can adapt mindfulness and CBT practices to work well in remote sessions, focusing on skills practice, behavioral experiments, and guided reflection.