Teri Nielsen, LMHC, LCMHC

Teri Nielsen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC, LCMHC) with 35 years of clinical experience based in Utah. She works with adults on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, and related issues listed in her practice areas. She sees people who are new to therapy as well as those with prior therapy experience.

Her work draws on long experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She spent nearly three decades practicing in Seattle before moving to southern Utah, and she combines practical clinical tools with personal life experience as a daughter, sister, wife, and mother. That background informs how she talks with people about their struggles.

Teri describes an active, direct style in sessions. She uses approaches that focus on attachment, emotions, and how thoughts shape behavior. She also integrates techniques from cognitive and experiential work and from mindfulness practices she has taught, including elements from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

She often works with professionals, first responders, healthcare workers, and therapists, as well as people managing blended family issues, divorce or separation, grief, and identity or sexuality concerns. Common topics include abandonment, attachment difficulties, infidelity, and coping with life changes.

Practical work in sessions can include talking through difficult memories, learning ways to manage anxiety and cravings, and practicing different ways to relate to family members. Teri encourages commitment and honest effort from the person who seeks help. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Therapeutic approaches she uses and online work