- Strengths focused
- Practical tools
- Faith-informed
About Audrey
Audrey Teshima is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing low self-esteem, parenting strain, relationship conflict, and career stress. She writes and speaks plainly, and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Her style aims to build confidence and steady progress over time.
Audrey draws on a decade of clinical experience plus work as a public school teacher. That mix informs her approach to family and parenting questions, and to challenges that affect day-to-day life. She has worked in independent practice, community mental health and substance abuse settings, and in elementary, middle, and high school environments.
In sessions she uses client-centered approaches that encourage people to guide the process. She also adapts techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help manage stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of how she helps people notice patterns and find internal motivation for change.
She often focuses on strengths and practical planning. That includes breaking big problems into smaller steps, practicing new ways of communicating, and building routines that support emotional balance. Audrey also integrates Biblically based Christian principles when clients want that perspective.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations, goal-oriented work, and tools to use outside sessions. The aim is to help people move toward greater resilience, clearer priorities, and improved self-regard over time.
Audrey draws on a decade of clinical experience plus work as a public school teacher. That mix informs her approach to family and parenting questions, and to challenges that affect day-to-day life. She has worked in independent practice, community mental health and substance abuse settings, and in elementary, middle, and high school environments.
In sessions she uses client-centered approaches that encourage people to guide the process. She also adapts techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help manage stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of how she helps people notice patterns and find internal motivation for change.
She often focuses on strengths and practical planning. That includes breaking big problems into smaller steps, practicing new ways of communicating, and building routines that support emotional balance. Audrey also integrates Biblically based Christian principles when clients want that perspective.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations, goal-oriented work, and tools to use outside sessions. The aim is to help people move toward greater resilience, clearer priorities, and improved self-regard over time.