Tenesha Jeffery, MD, LCPC

Tenesha Jeffery is a licensed clinician based in Maryland with five years of professional experience. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem. She also addresses relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and problems related to drug and alcohol use.

Tenesha aims to make sessions feel like a calm, nonjudgmental conversation. She creates space for people to talk through their thoughts and feelings. The goal is to build small, practical changes that fit daily life.

Her work draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), client-centered methods, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing. These give a mix of skills training, problem-solving, and support for motivation. She uses these tools to help people manage symptoms and practice new ways of coping.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Tenesha listens first, then helps set goals and steps that feel doable. She aims to help people gain more confidence and clearer communication in their relationships.

Tenesha recognizes that starting therapy can feel hard. She invites people to take that first step and will work alongside them to find practical strategies and steady progress.

Using CBT, DBT, and Client-Centered Work Online

Tenesha draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for concerns like anxiety, low mood, and stress because it focuses on clear steps to change thinking and action.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help with strong emotions, relationship conflict, and coping after trauma. Client-centered approaches are woven in as well, which means sessions begin with the client’s experiences and priorities and move at a comfortable pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tenesha will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helping and what feels sustainable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth weekly sessions, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides shorter check-ins, and text allows quick messages and homework support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.