Teri Nielsen, LMHC, LCMHC

Teri Nielsen is a licensed mental health practitioner with 35 years of experience in both in-patient and out-patient settings, working with adults, adolescents, children, and families. She brings a forward-thinking, trauma-informed approach to complex relationship and family dynamics, childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, stress disorders, addiction recovery, blended and extended family issues, and spiritual crisis. She spent 28 years living and working in Seattle before relocating to southern Utah in 2016, drawn to the landscapes and the red rocks that inspire her work.

Her practice often includes high-functioning corporate professionals, first responders, healthcare workers, fellow therapists, and people new to therapy who seek a stable foundation for emotional health. At the heart of her work is a commitment to creating a supportive space where difficult issues can be addressed and forward movement is possible. Teri’s style is active and direct, grounded in trauma-informed and evidence-based methods. She identifies as a Jungian and experiential therapist and integrates Rational Emotive techniques alongside mindfulness-based cognitive methods.

She has taught the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course and weaves those elements into care to address anxiety and the underlying patterns of addictive behaviors. Her personal practice of Vipassana meditation, begun in 1993, continues to inform her clinical work. Teri holds LMHC and LCMHC credentials, indicating licensure as a mental health counselor. She draws on both professional training and life experience as a woman, daughter, sister, wife, and mother, and she emphasizes compassion, resilience, and the hard work of change in the therapeutic journey.