About Tibor
Tibor Baukal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, grief, or major life changes. He aims to make first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's courage.
He works with individuals coping with trauma, abuse, and neglect, and with people facing issues at work, school, or in romantic relationships.
Background and approach
He also supports those dealing with addiction, mood concerns such as depression or bipolar symptoms, and challenges like ADHD or low self-esteem. Tibor pays attention to how life events and attachment patterns shape feelings and choices. In sessions he creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through.
He uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs, focusing on skills and insight that can be tried between sessions. Practical tools and clear conversation are common parts of his work. He also addresses concerns tied to family background, adoption, caregiver stress, body image, and intimacy-related questions.
He’s comfortable discussing complex or stigmatized topics like kink, commitment fears, or antisocial traits without shaming the person. People who choose him can expect straightforward conversation about goals and steps forward. He encourages small experiments and real-world practice to help people test new ways of coping and relating.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches skills to act in line with what matters to you, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape present behavior and emotions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and develop safer, more connected ways of relating when intimacy or trust feels hard.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and communicating more effectively. It can be helpful for strong mood swings, anger, and self-regulation challenges.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about goals, daily life, and what feels most useful. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules or those who prefer remote options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when looking for deeper connection. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to process things in moments when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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