About Nguyen
Nguyen Bui is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and big life changes. He speaks English and Vietnamese and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. Nguyen focuses on creating a listening space that is respectful and calm.
He adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs so sessions feel relevant and practical.
Background and approach
He emphasizes clear goals and small steps that can make daily life easier. His background includes three years of professional practice supporting people with trauma and post-traumatic stress concerns, as well as those coping with loss and major transitions. Nguyen uses approaches that help people change unhelpful thinking patterns, process difficult memories, and build concrete coping skills.
In sessions he tends to be direct and solution-oriented while still holding room for emotion and reflection. That can mean setting short-term goals, practicing strategies between sessions, and checking what’s useful as therapy progresses. He also draws on relationship-focused tools when communication is a central concern.
People come to him for a mix of immediate relief and longer-term change. He works to make therapy understandable and actionable, so progress can show up in everyday routines and relationships.
Practical approaches for online healing and coping
Nguyen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity by using structured bilateral stimulation alongside guided recalling.He also draws on Trauma-Focused and Solution-Focused ideas when they fit the situation, looking for concrete steps that can bring relief. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before, then adjust methods as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be useful when lower bandwidth is needed, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep momentum toward the changes a person wants.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Vietnamese
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