About Buddy
Buddy Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twenty years of practice. He works with people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, addiction, and many other life challenges. He keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Over the years he has helped individuals in crisis and people going through major life changes. Early in his career he worked with addiction concerns. Later he spent years supporting people with severe medical problems and chronic pain.
Background and approach
For the past decade he has emphasized grief and loss work. He taught psychology at the college level and advised students, which shaped his clear, direct style. That background also informed his interest in career and life-transition issues.
He aims to make therapy easy to understand and relevant to daily life. Buddy uses a cognitive behavioral approach that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. He also draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's experience and goals.
In sessions he helps people identify small changes that reduce anxiety and improve functioning. People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through pain, parenting struggles, relationship worries, and work stress. He offers practical tools for sleep, eating concerns, anger, and coping with role changes like fatherhood or separation.
The focus is on what the person wants to change and how to make that happen. Located in Texas, he brings two decades of varied clinical work into each appointment. Sessions tend to combine clear problem-solving with empathetic listening so people can move forward with confidence.
Approaches used in remote sessions and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead so sessions reflect their priorities and personal goals. This style helps when someone needs space to talk through grief, relationship problems, or role changes like fatherhood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches tools to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. It is practical and often includes exercises to try between sessions, which can help with sleep, worry, and coping with pain.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time based on what works best. Clients and the therapist work together to pick methods that match needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow short updates, homework review, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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