About Tony
Tony Byrd is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 27 years of clinical experience. He uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or stuck. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that people can use between meetings.
He draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness approaches help clients build attention and reduce stress in everyday life. Tony has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That background includes substance use treatment, trauma work, and programming in forensic and court-related contexts.
He has experience supporting people with mood disorders, ADHD, and issues tied to identity and relationships. In sessions he prioritizes education and collaborative planning. Clients work with him to set realistic, measurable steps and to track progress over time.
He describes therapy as a partnership where people play an active role in improving their situation. Tony also addresses practical life concerns like parenting stress, work burnout, money worries, and changes that come with midlife. He can help with grief, intimacy problems, and recovery from past abuse.
His style is straightforward and focused on usable skills.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep or eating concerns by teaching specific skills people can practice between sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is useful for strong mood swings, anger, impulsivity, and problems with relationships or self-control.
Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and present-moment awareness. It supports stress reduction, managing intrusive thoughts, and building calmer daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work closely with a licensed professional with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection, quick coping reminders, or brief updates between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to use the tools learned in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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