About Tommy
Tommy Pool is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, and navigate relationship and family concerns. He aims to make the first step into therapy feel like progress and encourages people who reach out to keep going.
Tommy creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through their thoughts and feelings. He uses practical conversations to identify what is most troubling and to find small, manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at making ideas easy to use in everyday life. His work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and perspective. He also incorporates cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Emotion-focused ideas are used when relationships or closeness are part of the concern. Tommy has helped people with a wide range of issues including depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people dealing with abandonment, caregiving stress, body image, and substance use concerns.
His approach balances practical tools with attention to feelings. People who choose Tommy usually find a steady, experienced counselor who listens and helps make change feel doable. He invites prospective clients to take the first step and schedule a session when they are ready.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on your perspective and goals. It means the counselor listens and follows what matters to you, helping you set the pace and topics for sessions. This approach can help with anxiety, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns because it gives clear steps people can practice between sessions.
Emotionally-focused therapy helps people understand and change patterns in close relationships. It emphasizes expressing and responding to core feelings in ways that build connection and reduce conflict. This can be useful when intimacy, communication, or attachment issues are part of the problem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling and ongoing care more flexible for many people.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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