About Terence
Terence Shigg is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and anger. He supports clients working through relationship concerns and building self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also offers coaching for motivation and professional growth. He brings 16 years of experience practicing in California.
He treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Terence uses conversational, goal-oriented sessions. He listens to what’s most pressing and helps set clear, achievable steps.
He also offers a professional coaching perspective for career and motivation goals. In sessions clients can expect straightforward guidance and gentle accountability.
Terence helps people untangle recurring patterns, test small changes, and notice what works. The style is collaborative rather than prescriptive.
For someone feeling stuck by anxiety, low confidence, isolation, or unclear purpose, he helps map simple next moves. He supports social anxiety and phobias with practical strategies to reduce avoidance.
The focus is on steady progress that fits a person’s life. Terence welcomes conversations about where to begin and how coaching or therapy could fit into daily life.
He works in English and practices as a California LMFT, offering a calm, direct approach to personal and professional challenges.
Evidence-based approaches and online convenience
Terence uses practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing patterns of thought and behavior to reduce anxiety and improve motivation. These approaches often involve identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors in real life, and tracking small wins over time. They can help with social anxiety, phobias, and low confidence.He also incorporates coaching-style methods focused on goal setting and accountability. That work helps people clarify purpose, boost motivation, and make steady progress at work or in personal projects. Sessions combine short-term goals with steps clients can try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to a client’s needs and preferences, and adjust methods as progress is seen. Together they decide which techniques fit the client’s goals and schedule.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit support into a busy life while keeping work focused on what matters most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English