Theresa Hanneman Boer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. Theresa has empowered, inspired, and comforted children, adults, parents, and families with a wide spectrum of challenges. She supports her clients who may be struggling with anxiety, depression, living with a chronic illness, relationship challenges, grief, and psychosis. In addition, she is passionate about supporting parents as they seek to take care of the needs of their children, themselves, and their families as a whole.
Theresa believes in a holistic approach to her work with her clients. She is experienced in the use of a wide variety of therapy techniques and approaches and tailors her treatment to the unique needs of her clients. Theresa often incorporates tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Family Systems Therapy. She serves clients in person at our Los Gatos and San Jose locations or via Teletherapy.
Theresa describes her psychotherapist style as warm, informal, and personal. Theresa is passionate about creating a therapy experience where her clients feel free to be themselves and share or work on what matters most to them. She is dedicated to helping individuals, children, and families build lives of joy, meaning, and growth.
When not in session with clients, Theresa can be found doing her best to soak up all that brings her joy in this life: adventures with her teenage daughter, meaningful, laughter-filled conversations with friends and family over yummy food, exploring new gorgeous, peaceful spots in nature, music, dancing, and much more! She is especially enthusiastic about horses, and steals away for rides when she can.
A few quotes that jump out to her these days:
“What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more?”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”“Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been thru so much and is still standing.”