- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Theresa
Theresa Revans-McMenimon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She offers straightforward support for parents and adults who are juggling stress, relationship strain, or big life changes. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on practical steps you can try between sessions.
Theresa emphasizes honest self-reflection to help people sort wants from needs. That self-awareness becomes the base for clearer conversations at home. She helps people practice talking and listening in ways that reduce blame and increase understanding.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on parenting concerns, blended family issues, and communication struggles. She also supports people facing anxiety, career transitions, money worries, or changes tied to young adulthood and midlife. Theresa has experience with addiction, intimacy-related issues, and adults navigating autism or Asperger syndrome in family contexts.
Theresa uses client-centered methods and solution-focused techniques to keep sessions practical. Motivational interviewing and narrative therapy also inform how she helps people reframe problems and find small, workable goals. Sessions typically focus on skills you can use right away.
She trained as a family specialist through Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities, and she practices in New York as a CT LMFT and NY LMFT. Theresa sometimes refers people elsewhere when another provider would better meet their needs.
What Theresa works with
Everything Theresa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Theresa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Theresa lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting and relationship work
Theresa often uses client-centered therapy, which puts the person's experience at the center of the work. That means she listens for your priorities and helps you name what matters most so sessions follow your pace and concerns.She also applies solution-focused therapy to keep conversations goal-oriented. This approach looks for small, practical steps that can change daily interactions at home and build momentum quickly. Narrative therapy is used sometimes to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships, which can shift how they respond to stress and conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Theresa will check in about your goals, your day-to-day challenges, and what feels workable. Together you can try different methods and settle on what helps you make steady progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet the needs of busy parents and working adults. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a packed schedule and to try approaches that fit your routine.
Questions people ask about Theresa
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns as well as self-esteem, addictions, anger, career changes, depression, and coping with life transitions.
What is her therapeutic approach like?
Theresa uses client-centered care and solution-focused techniques to keep sessions practical. She also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help people reframe challenges and set small goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has 18 years of clinical experience working with adults on communication, parenting, and family-related issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She practices in New York and holds the LMFT credential with CT LMFT and NY LMFT designation.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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