About Teena
Teena Quinn is an ACA counsellor with over 10 years of experience. She draws on somatic approaches alongside psychotherapy methods to help people manage stress, anxiety and major life changes. Teena speaks plainly and offers practical, down-to-earth support for everyday struggles.
Teena has worked with people from many backgrounds, including time spent supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. She also brings lived experience of chronic illness and disability, which informs how she listens and responds in sessions.
Background and approach
That perspective helps her relate to clients who face ongoing health or accessibility challenges. Her work commonly covers sleep problems, depression, anxiety, addiction concerns and coping after loss or trauma. She supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, body image and career stress.
Teena also helps those managing ADHD, compassion fatigue and the emotional sides of chronic pain and illness. Teena uses several therapeutic approaches to match the person and the issue. She includes somatic techniques to help people notice and work with bodily reactions.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and cognitive behaviour strategies when they fit the goal. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical. Teena listens, helps name patterns, and suggests small steps that can be tried between meetings.
Her plain spoken style and gentle humour are part of how she builds trust and keeps therapy grounded in everyday life.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic work helps people tune into how stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions with somatic elements might include noticing breath, posture or tension together and trying small, grounding exercises. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma reactions and chronic pain patterns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them. It teaches ways to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to remove them. ACT can help with depression, worry and life transitions.
Attachment-based ideas look at patterns formed in earlier relationships and how they affect current connections. In online sessions this work can clarify repeating patterns and guide new ways of communicating and relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most relevant and try methods together. That collaborative process helps decide if somatic techniques, ACT or attachment-focused work is the best fit for your goals.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Sessions can be done by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins work well through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around daily life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English