About Judy
Judy Thomas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and attention or motivation problems. She brings a direct, honest, and compassionate style to conversations. Judy aims for clear communication so people know what to expect from the work they do together.
She uses practical, evidence-informed approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are mixed in to build coping skills and short-term gains. Sessions tend to focus on breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new skills between meetings. Judy often helps people dealing with depression, bipolar mood changes, ADHD-related challenges, addictions, and post-traumatic stress.
She also supports those facing relationship strains, parenting stress, body image concerns, and life transitions such as midlife shifts or career changes. She works with people exploring non-monogamous relationships, kink and alternative sexual cultures, and LGBT issues without judgment. Her approach treats therapy as a partnership.
Clients set goals and she offers straightforward feedback, tools, and resources aligned with those goals. Together they identify patterns that get in the way and try small, concrete changes to improve daily functioning. Judy practices from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English.
She accepts international clients and offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How Judy’s Approaches Work Online
Judy combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people make practical changes. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. DBT adds skills for handling strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and managing impulsivity, which is useful for mood instability and self-harm concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Judy will listen to the problems you bring, discuss goals, and recommend methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions make that work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when you need a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let you check in between sessions, share updates, and get brief coaching without scheduling a full visit. These options support continuity of care and help people practice new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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