Hello and welcome! I’m Teresa Thompson, Founder and Senior Therapist at Salt River Therapy. I help clients reflect on their feelings, thoughts, and relationships, practice tools and strategies for change, and step into their truest, most authentic selves. Clients come to me feeling unsure and insecure, repeating the same frustrating patterns over and over again, and afraid to let go of what’s not working. Our work together helps them dig into themselves deeper, ditch old and unhealthy cycles, and finally move forward on the life path that they want.I value building a genuine therapeutic connection with my clients - that’s why I’m open to bringing aspects of my personal identity and lived experience into my practice. As a binational, multiracial person living in diaspora, I relate well to “outsiders” and people with mixed or fluid identities. Women and LGBTQ clients often specifically seek me out as a therapist who is a queer woman of color - because I haven’t just studied these walks of life, I’ve lived them.Before starting my private practice, I worked in the community mental health setting for several years. My prior positions include working at an early intervention program for adolescents and young adults with first episode psychosis, a home visit program for people with severe and persistent mental illness, and a congregational housing program for people struggling with substance abuse. If you can think of it, I've seen it - my experience has made me excellent at navigating crises and thinking on my feet. I am an honors graduate of both the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and Trinity College Dublin. I have also completed advanced clinical training at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the Embody Lab.