Tenesha Vedrine, LMSW

Professional Introduction

Tenesha Vedrine, LMSW, is a Licensed Master Social Worker with over 15 years of experience in the mental health and social services field. She is passionate about creating a supportive, compassionate, and culturally responsive space where clients can feel heard, respected, and empowered as they navigate life’s challenges.

Throughout her career, Tenesha has supported individuals and families experiencing mental health concerns, housing instability, child welfare involvement, family challenges, major life transitions, and other complex stressors. Her extensive experience across behavioral health, supportive housing, child welfare, and community-based services gives her a strong understanding of how emotional wellness can be affected by relationships, family systems, environment, culture, and everyday life circumstances.

Tenesha works collaboratively with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, stress, and difficulty coping with life transitions. She believes therapy should not only provide a place to process difficult experiences, but should also help clients recognize their strengths, develop practical coping skills, and create meaningful change in their lives.

For clients who desire faith to be part of their healing journey, Tenesha can thoughtfully incorporate biblical principles and faith-based perspectives alongside therapeutic interventions.

My Approach to Therapy

Tenesha’s therapeutic style is compassionate, collaborative, strengths-based, and solution-focused. She believes that clients bring valuable strengths, experiences, and insight into the therapy room, and she works alongside them to identify what is working, understand what may be keeping them stuck, and develop practical strategies for moving forward.

Her approach focuses on helping clients build resilience, strengthen coping skills, improve emotional wellness, and develop greater confidence in navigating challenges. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, Tenesha considers each client’s individual needs, goals, values, cultural background, family experiences, and personal circumstances when developing treatment.

Her clinical experience includes conducting comprehensive mental health assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, providing individual psychotherapy, monitoring client progress, and supporting clients experiencing crisis situations.

Tenesha also recognizes that spirituality can be an important source of meaning, strength, and healing. For clients who request it, she can integrate faith-based and biblical principles into the therapeutic process while maintaining a professional and client-centered approach.

Ultimately, her goal is to provide a safe and nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore their experiences, recognize their strengths, develop effective tools, and move toward greater emotional well-being and resilience.

Specialties & Areas of Focus

• Anxiety and excessive worry

• Depression and mood concerns

• Trauma and PTSD

• Grief and loss

• Stress management

• Coping skills development

• Self-esteem and confidence

• Life transitions and adjustment

• Emotional wellness

• Personal growth and resilience

• Family and relationship concerns

• Life coaching and goal development

• Crisis intervention and stabilization

• Challenges related to housing instability and homelessness

• Child welfare and family-system concerns

• Faith and spirituality, when requested by the client

• Culturally responsive mental health support

Therapeutic Modalities

• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

  Helps clients identify strengths, existing resources, achievable goals, and practical steps toward meaningful change.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  Supports clients in identifying connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while developing healthier patterns and coping strategies.

• Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  Uses a collaborative and nonjudgmental approach to help clients explore ambivalence, strengthen motivation, and make changes that align with their personal goals and values.

• Trauma-Informed Care

  Creates an emotionally safe and supportive therapeutic environment while recognizing the ways trauma and difficult life experiences can influence emotional health, relationships, and behavior.

• Family Systems Approach

  Explores how family relationships, roles, communication patterns, and experiences may influence a client’s current emotional and relational well-being.

• Mindfulness-Based Interventions

  Encourages greater awareness of thoughts, emotions, and present-moment experiences to support emotional regulation and stress management.

• Faith-Based / Biblical Counseling

  For clients who request it, Tenesha can incorporate spirituality and biblical principles into therapy in a manner that respects the client’s beliefs, values, and individual therapeutic goals.

Education & Credentials

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) — State of Connecticut

• Master of Social Work (MSW) — Touro College, Graduate School of Social Work

• Master’s in Theological Studies — Liberty University

• Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies — John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Over 15 years of experience in the field of mental health.

Client Focus

• Adults

• Individuals

• Couples

• Families

• Clients navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions

• Individuals seeking stronger coping skills and greater emotional resilience

• Clients navigating family or relationship challenges

• Individuals impacted by housing instability, homelessness, or complex social stressors

• Clients with experiences involving child welfare or family-service systems

• Clients from diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds

• Clients seeking culturally responsive therapy

• Clients who wish to incorporate faith or spirituality into therapy