About Si
Si Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Idaho who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related stress. He keeps sessions practical and straightforward so parents and busy adults can use new skills quickly. He aims to make therapy feel like a useful conversation rather than a lecture.
He prefers to learn what matters most to each person before suggesting tools. That often means listening first, helping name the patterns that cause worry, and teaching ways to test and change unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
He uses clear exercises you can try between sessions to build small, steady change. Thompson trained in social work and has about nine years of experience in community and clinical roles. His background includes work in schools, wilderness counseling, mentoring in residential programs, and AmeriCorps service in rural settings.
Those roles shaped his interest in practical, strengths-based support. In sessions he draws on client-centered approaches, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral ideas, and existential perspectives. He also uses narrative techniques, motivational interviewing, journaling prompts, and simple relaxation practices when helpful.
He adapts materials like role-play or written exercises to each person’s pace. People who reach out can expect a collaborative tone focused on what they want to change. Thompson describes himself as curious, direct, and warm, and he works to help people build routines and habits that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and values and meeting them where they are. It is about listening closely, reflecting what matters, and helping people find their own answers, which can be useful for stress, relationship concerns, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches people to notice and test unhelpful thoughts and to try small behavioral experiments. It targets anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood issues with clear skills and homework that work well in remote sessions.
Mindfulness therapy involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. These techniques are often paired with other approaches to help manage worry and build emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and personal preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. Those options help people fit care into busy lives while continuing the same therapeutic practices used in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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