Theresa Fillingim, LPC

Theresa Fillingim is a licensed professional counselor who aims to make therapy approachable and useful. She greets each new client with a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on helping people build practical skills and reach clear goals. Theresa emphasizes trust and steady progress in sessions.

Theresa uses a client-centered style that keeps the person’s needs and experience at the center of care. She blends attachment-focused ideas with tools from cognitive behavioral work and emotion-focused methods to address problems like anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. Theresa also brings experience treating co-occurring concerns such as substance use combined with mood or trauma-related symptoms.

Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Philosophy, a Master’s in Counseling and Psychology, and a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Care. Theresa has practiced in Georgia for 17 years and holds the LPC credential. She also has a long history working with addiction issues dating back to 2007.

In sessions she aims to teach concrete skills that fit into everyday life. Expect a straightforward way of setting measurable, achievable steps toward change. Theresa looks at wellness more broadly, including physical, emotional, and spiritual factors.

People come to her for help with stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, anger, and issues around identity and self-esteem. Theresa supports work on attachment and abandonment wounds, communication problems, dissociation, and other complex patterns that can make daily life harder.

How Theresa’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Theresa integrates attachment-based ideas by focusing on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. This approach looks at patterns of closeness and distance and helps people notice what they repeat in relationships and why. Attachment-focused work can be useful for relationship struggles, abandonment concerns, and feeling stuck in repeating patterns.

She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience and perspective. That means sessions start with what matters most to the client and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and practice small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, and then recommend an approach or mix of approaches. This is a collaborative decision that can change as progress is made.

Confirm the available session formats before booking so you know what options fit your schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so sessions are simpler to attend. Talk with the therapist about scheduling and how to shape sessions to your everyday routine.