Theresa Fillingim, LPC

Theresa Fillingim is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on relationship concerns and related challenges. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, grief, substance use, and life transitions. Theresa works to earn trust in each meeting while offering practical tools to help reach clear goals.

She practices a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s experience at the center of sessions. Theresa emphasizes empathy and unconditional positive regard as the basis for change. She also looks at overall wellness - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - when helping people make plans.

Theresa has 17 years of counseling experience in Georgia and holds degrees in theology, counseling and psychology, and pastoral care. That background informs a thoughtful, whole-person perspective when addressing concerns like trauma, co-occurring disorders, depression, and addiction. She aims for straightforward, measurable steps people can take between sessions.

Sessions often include skill teaching and practical strategies drawn from approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-focused work. Theresa supports people managing relationship strain, intimacy worries, communication problems, and parenting stress. She also helps with body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and adjustment after separation.

Theresa helps people set achievable goals and tracks progress over time. She encourages honest conversation about setbacks and builds on strengths to support lasting change.

How her approaches shape online work

Theresa uses Attachment-Based ideas and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to guide her work. Attachment-based work looks at how early connection styles affect current relationships and helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust. CBT focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Theresa discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to fit their needs. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and adjusts strategies when needed so the plan stays useful and relevant.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session formats before booking since current biography details do not list specific formats. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow focused skill practice between appointments. They can also make it simpler to schedule a brief check-in or a longer deep session depending on what’s needed that week. Licensed professionals can use the same attachment and CBT techniques online by teaching skills, reviewing homework, and working on relationship patterns through conversation and guided exercises.