About Thao
Thao Florendo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. She works with adults who are facing stress, grief, depression, trauma, and the daily strain of life changes. Her background as a former educator shapes how she explains things simply and clearly.
She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions often include talking through reactions, learning ways to manage stress, and building skills for clearer communication.
Background and approach
Thao pays attention to how culture and identity affect each person's experience and decisions. Her style aims to be warm and straightforward. She creates room for people to tell their stories and to make sense of painful events.
Thao also centers grief processing and coping after traumatic experiences. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people find strengths and try new ways of handling problems. That might mean practicing new coping skills, testing small changes, or working through past hurts at a manageable pace.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Thao brings three years of counseling experience and a focus on respectful, culturally aware care. She offers sessions in English and uses multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their life and schedule.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Thao uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and processing hard experiences. One common approach helps people learn and practice coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on processing trauma and grief in a paced way that helps a person tell their story, reduce the hold of painful memories, and develop new ways to manage triggers.Choosing which approach to try is a collaborative process. Thao will work with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust methods over time based on what is helpful and workable in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect that can make it easier to keep appointments and stay consistent. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in or use brief coaching between sessions. These options let people pick formats that match their schedule, comfort with technology, and daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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