About Tom
Tom Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of clinical work. He greets people in a relaxed, warm way and aims to understand who they are before deciding on a path forward. Many people seek him out for anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Tom keeps sessions straightforward. He helps people spot their existing strengths and use those strengths to solve problems. Conversations focus on what matters most to the person and on small, practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
Background and approach
His approach draws on a few different therapies so work is tailored to the person. Techniques include mindfulness and values-based work, problem-focused thinking exercises, and attention to emotions in close relationships. This mix is used to address things like grief, trauma, addictions, parenting strain, and career pressure.
Tom also supports people dealing with codependency, communication problems, caregiver stress, and issues that come from family of origin patterns. He works with concerns such as anger, guilt and shame, commitment worries, and emptiness by helping clients name patterns and try new behaviors. In sessions he emphasizes collaboration and gradual change.
Tom explains ideas plainly and helps people build routines that fit real life. The goal is clearer choices, fewer stuck habits, and better use of personal strengths.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking actions that match those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and related behaviors, then teaches practical skills to test and change those patterns to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotional experiences in relationships and helps people understand and express needs more clearly to improve connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tom will discuss these methods with each person and together they will pick techniques that fit the client's goals and daily life. The process is collaborative and adjusted as progress is observed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when less bandwidth is available, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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