About Troy
Troy Gibson is a licensed clinical professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He uses a conversational, strengths-focused approach to make therapy feel approachable and steady. Troy aims to build a working relationship where clients can reflect, try new strategies, and gain hope in everyday life.
Troy brings ten years of clinical experience from inpatient and outpatient hospital settings and independent practice. He has worked with people facing trauma, depression, grief, relationship struggles, minority stress, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
He pays attention to cultural and multicultural factors when talking with clients. In sessions Troy keeps the tone direct but supportive. He uses questions and reflection to help people find patterns and understand how past events connect to present struggles.
He also offers practical tools for coping, like mindfulness exercises and targeted problem-solving steps. Troy draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore origins of patterns, client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead, and solution-focused work to set clear, achievable goals. Expect to look at unfinished business, try new behavior experiments, and practice skills between sessions.
He describes his style as insight-oriented and sometimes playful, while remaining focused on progress. Troy emphasizes collaboration - deciding together what to try next and adjusting the pace to match each person's needs.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building a trusting therapeutic relationship. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and clarify what matters to them.Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people recognize and name difficult emotions and improve how they connect in relationships. It can be useful for anxiety linked to closeness, attachment, or recurring conflict with a partner or loved one.
Existential therapy invites people to examine meaning, choices, and the limits of control. It can help those facing life transitions, career questions, or a sense of aimlessness by turning attention toward values and personal responsibility.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help identify which methods fit a person's goals and preferences, and will adjust techniques as progress is made. That process is collaborative and paced to the client's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and have a deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and try different formats to discover what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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