Teddi Plummer

Teddi Plummer is an empathic clinical counselor in California with nine years of direct practice supporting adults and youth across a wide range of mental health concerns. She emphasizes encouragement and hope in the therapeutic process, and clients frequently tell her she is a therapist who cares.

She is licensed to practice as a clinical counselor in California and uses a strengths-based, evidence-informed approach to tailor care to each person. Her clinical work has included assessment, diagnosis, crisis counseling, and emergency room crisis response, and she has supported clients experiencing mild to acute suicidal ideation.

Plummer has worked with people facing severe and complex presentations as well as those with mild to moderate challenges. Her experience covers schizophrenia with auditory and visual hallucinations, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, severe depression, trauma and PTSD, anxiety and panic attacks, personality disorders, self-harm such as cutting, and dual diagnosis. She has also provided therapeutic services for clients with co-occurring substance use and behavioral addictions.

In group and program settings she has co-counseled Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups and earned DBT training certificates, facilitated anger management and batterers intervention groups, and led behavioral and substance addiction groups for at-risk youth and adults. She is a certified SMART Recovery facilitator and a Nurturing Parenting facilitator, and has more than two years of experience leading parenting groups.

Her practice draws from evidence-based models to find the best fit for each client, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing. She also offers services related to domestic violence - assisting survivors and working with perpetrators to develop healthier anger-management skills.

Plummer respects the diverse faiths and beliefs of her clients and supports those who view spirituality or faith as an important resource in recovery. She brings practical faith-based experience, including 13 years teaching children’s church, four years as a faith-based youth and young adult group leader, and one year providing volunteer Christian counseling to adults under pastoral supervision.