Teena Quinn, ACA
10 years in practice
Teena Quinn is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience who blends emotion-focused work with practical strategies.
License and registration
- ACA
- 11606 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Teena
Teena Quinn is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience who blends emotion-focused work with practical strategies. She describes therapy as a collaborative conversation where feelings are noticed, named and used to guide change. Teena draws on her own lived experience of long-term health conditions to relate to clients with empathy and plain speaking.
Her practice focuses on stress and anxiety, depression, addictions and sleep difficulties. She also helps people facing grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions and major life changes.
Background and approach
Teena lists support for ADHD, compassion fatigue and chronic illness among her interests. Teena uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches. She also draws on client-centred and cognitive behavioural ideas when those tools suit a person’s goals.
Sessions aim to build clearer self-understanding and practical steps that fit everyday life. She has worked with people from different backgrounds, including time supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Teena emphasises dignity, sensitivity and empathy in sessions and adapts her style to each person’s needs.
Her manner can include informal, down-to-earth language that some clients find reassuring. People begin by talking about what matters most to them and what they want to change. From there she helps shape achievable goals, coping techniques and ways to notice emotional patterns.
The focus is on small, steady progress and on tools that can be used between sessions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Teena lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Teena names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotion work and online therapy come together
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognise and work with their feelings. It focuses on identifying emotional patterns that shape relationships and self-view, which can help with anxiety, grief and intimacy concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages clear values and small actions, helping people move toward what matters even when emotions are difficult. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current patterns and can be useful for relationship and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and choose or combine methods that fit your needs. This is a collaborative process where you try an approach and adjust it based on what helps you make progress.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so therapy can fit around work, family and mobility needs. Video is useful for longer conversations and body language cues, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep regular appointments without long travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Teena commonly help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, sleep problems and grief, plus relationship and intimacy issues and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Teena combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with practical techniques from ACT and CBT, using plain language and a collaborative tone.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of clinical experience and describes lived experience of chronic health conditions that inform her work and empathy.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She works in Australia and holds ACA as her listed credential.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside Australia work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Teena offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and starting therapy handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time; start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.
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