Therese Schmoll

Therese Schmoll is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with thirty years of experience in mental health and human services. She draws on a mix of attachment work, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people manage pressing life concerns. Her approach is practical and direct, focused on what people can do between sessions to feel steadier and clearer.

Therese aims to make sessions feel like a calm place to sort things out. She helps people name patterns in relationships and in how they cope with stress and anxiety. Money and financial issues are one of the concerns she addresses alongside grief, addiction, mood disorders, and trauma.

In session she blends a focus on how early relationships shape current patterns with straightforward skills for thinking differently about problems. She listens for each person’s values and goals and uses that to shape the work. Clients often get short exercises to practice between visits.

Her training includes a graduate degree from Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. That background informs her attention to relationship dynamics and family systems when relevant.

Therese has worked across settings in California over three decades, seeing a broad spectrum of people with varied concerns. She brings experience with attachment issues, blended family challenges, communication problems, and the emotional fallout of separation and infidelity.

People come to her for help with coping skills, clearer communication, and practical steps to manage life changes. She aims for collaborative, respectful work that fits each person’s situation and goals.

How her approaches shape online therapy