About Fred
Fred (Frederick) Theobald is a licensed counselor with 15 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. He works with adults who want practical strategies for everyday problems. Sessions focus on clear steps and honest conversation rather than jargon.
Fred keeps the room calm and direct. He listens first to understand what feels most urgent. Then he and the client set short-term goals and try out concrete tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
His work often covers relationship and intimacy concerns, grief and loss, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and career stress. He also supports people coping with first responder issues, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and the fallout from abuse or major life change. Fred uses several research-based approaches to shape sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered methods.
He draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation or crisis coping is needed. Fred holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in Texas. He offers a straightforward style that aims to help people build lasting skills and get unstuck, with attention to values and meaningful goals.
Many people come to him seeking help with anxiety, phobias, or addictive behaviors and leave with clearer plans and new coping tools. He works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, phobias, and feeling stuck by teaching practical skills for living despite uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT is often useful for stress, sleep problems, and phobias. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful for intimacy, relationship difficulties, and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit the situation and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing progress, and adjusting the plan together rather than following a fixed recipe.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls approximate in-person conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical skill-building and recovery.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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