Tesia Wells, LMFT

Tesia Wells is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by relationship strain, grief, anxiety, or changes in life circumstances.

She focuses on solving real problems in everyday life. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Tesia encourages people to learn skills they can use between appointments to manage stress, mood, and difficult interactions.

Her background includes work across a wide range of concerns, including parenting challenges, addiction, body image, family of origin issues, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing career and financial stress, questions about intimacy, and multicultural or LGBT-related concerns.

Tesia combines approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, client-centered care, and narrative and psychodynamic ideas to tailor work to each person. She avoids one-size-fits-all solutions and instead designs plans around a client's goals and daily life.

Her sessions emphasize clear communication, practical coping strategies, and space to process painful events. People leave with concrete tools for handling conflict, improving sleep and eating patterns, managing anger, and rebuilding self-esteem.

Overall, Tesia aims to help people feel more capable and less burdened by the issues that brought them to therapy. She works collaboratively to set priorities and track progress over time.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's pace. The therapist offers empathy and helps people find their own solutions, which works well through conversation on video or phone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions interact. It uses practical exercises and skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms and can be done over video, phone, or messaging. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas help people understand patterns that developed over time and the stories they tell about themselves; talking these through online can open new ways of seeing longstanding concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match goals, values, and everyday needs. Sessions begin with clear goals and a plan that can be adjusted as progress is tracked.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and differing needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework, or coaching-style guidance between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite a hectic life.