Meet our Therapists
Spencer McCauley, LCSW
Practice Owner
Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Therapist
Serving clients in CT, NY, and MA.
Spencer is a therapist and owner of Spencer’s Therapy Practice. Spencer has been working in mental health for the past 10 years. She has trained at Yale, Bellevue and in NYC and Greenwich in various settings which have all focused on child, adolescent & young adult therapy.
Spencer specializes in social difficulties, anxiety, obsessive thoughts and worries. She also specialize in challenges at school including perfectionism, underperforming and behavioral difficulties.
Spencer uses a strengths based approach and believes all individuals have inherent strengths that make them unique and important. She uses a variety of therapies including CBT, DBT, Parent Management, ACT, mindfulness, Attachment-based and mindfulness. She weaves these together to fit the needs of each client. She is also basic trained in EMDR which is effective for individuals who want to process traumatic or upsetting experiences from the past.
Teresa Giolitto, LMFT
Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Therapist for Families & Individuals
Serving clients in CT
Teresa is a compassionate, warm and direct therapist who works with children, teens and young adults providing individual and family therapy. She has 10 years of experience in the mental health field.
Teresa often works with clients who have a variety of challenges. These challenges include anxiety, disorganization, social difficulties, ADHD, neurodivergence, Autism, school challenges, and disruption at home.
Teresa has various experiences which have focused on teens and families in particular. These experiences have included working in-patient at St. Vincent’s with adolescents, running groups for parents and providing therapy to high schoolers.
In addition to her work at Spencer’s Therapy Practice LLC, Teresa is part of a program placed in Staples High School which supports teens that would otherwise be out-placed due to mental health. She provides group, individual and family therapy in the school. This experience gives her unique insight into the school system as well as knowledge about teens having difficulty attending or succeeding in school.
Teresa uses several different therapeutic approaches to support her clients. She uses both individual and family therapy approaches including DBT, CBT, IFS, Motivational Interviewing and other helpful therapeutic modalities.