Teresa Lewis, LCSW

Teresa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Montana with more than 20 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. Teresa also helps with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes.

She trained in social work at the University of Montana and has worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient, and inpatient psychiatric settings. That background includes time as a medical social worker, which informs how she approaches co-occurring medical and mental health issues. Teresa has long experience supporting people with addictions and the disorders that often occur alongside them.

Her clinical approach centers on the person in front of her. She draws on client-centered methods to honor a person’s autonomy and decisions. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for regulating emotions and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.

Teresa offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) strategies and provides Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for people dealing with trauma, panic, or PTSD symptoms. She uses motivational interviewing and rational emotive behavioral tools when working on change and relapse prevention.

Sessions focus on concrete goals the client sets. Teresa aims to help people build practical skills for day-to-day life while addressing the problems that brought them in. Prospective clients should confirm current session formats before booking.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions