Therapist in South Kingstown, Rhode Island Teryn O'Brien, Therapist

Teryn O’Brien, LMHCA, helps children, teens, and adults in Rhode Island navigate their mental health journeys with compassion, collaboration, and clinical skill. At LifeStance Health, she supports clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges related to chronic illness or somatic symptoms. Teryn’s therapeutic approach is deeply trauma-informed and integrative, empowering clients to explore the root of their emotional pain while building sustainable tools for growth and resilience. Whether a client is struggling with overwhelming emotions, life transitions, or longstanding patterns, Teryn offers a warm, nonjudgmental space where healing begins through meaningful connection and personalized care. Teryn is especially passionate about working with individuals facing complex PTSD, childhood trauma, and grief. She believes that unresolved early life experiences often surface in the form of anxiety, depression, or physical distress, and she integrates both somatic, body-based and evidence-based techniques to address these patterns at their core.

Her work supports clients in reclaiming their sense of safety, identity, and self-worth, while developing practical skills to cope with the present moment. Teryn offers individual therapy for children, teens, and adults using a variety of approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT, Exposure Therapy, mindfulness, expressive arts, and play therapy. She also works with populations including LGBTQ individuals, those on the autism spectrum, military and veterans, and first responders. Outside of therapy, Teryn finds joy in painting, hiking, teaching yoga, writing poetry, playing violin, and exploring the outdoors.