Terry Shuart

Theresa Shuart is a Clinical Fellow in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists with more than 35 years’ experience working with patients in the mental health field, helping people of all ages (age 4 and above), and she specializes in marriage and family therapy. Her clientele is diverse; she works with individuals, couples, and families. Typical treatment issues include anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, blended families, marriage issues, and military family issues.

Theresa has several treatment approaches in order to offer the best treatment for each problem. Therese treatments include different types of systemic therapies (great for family work), brief therapy for goal planning (to ensure the client is included in the goal development), cognitive behavioral therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a type of therapeutic hypnosis that has been shown to work quickly and effectively, especially with phobias. (Note: This is only done with client permission and after an explanation of the process.)

Theresa did her undergraduate training in Psychology at James Madison University, and earned her graduate degree in Counseling at the University of Virginia. She further studied with experts in the field for more years to specialize and become licensed in marriage and family therapy (LMFT).

For fun, Theresa likes sewing crafts and birding from her back porch.