About Tressa
Tressa Bloom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 27 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She brings a long history of study in psychology and decades of hands-on work to each conversation. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward; she prefers to set goals together and adjust the plan as needs change.
She uses practical methods that fit the person in front of her, not a one-size-fits-all model.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is most pressing - whether that's panic and worry, grief, relationship struggles, or challenges at work. She aims to make sessions feel like a real conversation, with clear next steps between meetings.
Tressa draws on client-centered ideas to follow each person's lead, cognitive behavioral tools to change patterns of thought and behavior, and psychodynamic perspectives to understand how past experiences shape current feelings. She also uses solution-focused techniques for shorter-term problems and goal work. The mix depends on the issue and each person's preference.
People who reach out can expect direct, compassionate feedback and practical homework when it will help. Tressa emphasizes honesty about progress and keeps treatment flexible so plans evolve as problems become clearer. Her work often includes support for parenting, career changes, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and grief.
Sessions are offered remotely in Florida. Conversations are conducted in English and use formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect someone to the right fit.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's priorities. The therapist helps people put words to their concerns and supports them in making choices that feel right. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Those techniques are useful for panic, worry, and everyday stress. Psychodynamic therapy examines how past relationships and early experiences influence current feelings and reactions, which can help with recurring patterns and deeper emotional issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and collaborate with the client to pick what feels most helpful. Plans can change over time as goals shift and new issues emerge, and sessions will include check-ins on progress so changes can be made together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see body language and have a longer conversation. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or the check-in is shorter. Live chat and text-based messaging are convenient for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep therapy consistent during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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