Teri Nielsen

Teri Nielsen is a forward-thinking, licensed mental health therapist with 35 years of experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She has worked with adults, adolescents, children, and families, bringing a depth of clinical knowledge to issues such as relationship difficulties, complex childhood trauma within families, PTSD, anxiety and stress disorders, addiction recovery, blended and extended family concerns, and spiritual crisis.

She practiced in Seattle for 28 years before moving to southern Utah in 2016, drawn by the landscapes and the red rock scenery. That geographic and professional journey informs her respect for the personal struggles people bring to therapy, and her confidence in the therapeutic process comes from witnessing lasting change in the lives of those she has treated.

Many of her clients are high-functioning professionals, including corporate staff, first responders, healthcare workers, and other therapists, as well as people who have been in therapy before and those who are new to the process. Her primary aim is to create a safe space where clients can address the obstacles that keep them from moving forward.

Her therapeutic style is active and direct. She uses trauma-informed, evidence-based methods and integrates Jungian and experiential approaches with Rational Emotive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. She has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, the course developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and applies elements of that work to reduce anxiety and address the roots of addictive behaviors.

Beyond formal training, she draws on life experience as a woman, daughter, sister, wife, and mother. Since 1993 she has practiced Vipassana meditation, a form of sitting and walking meditation, which continues to support her personally and inform her clinical work.

She is licensed to practice as a mental health counselor in both Utah and Washington. Teri approaches therapy with compassion and practical expectation - she asks clients to bring honesty, grit, and a commitment to themselves, and she offers steady professional support to help them make difficult changes.