About Tressa
Tressa Bloom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 27 years of practice in Florida. She has a long academic background in psychology and decades of hands-on experience helping people manage worry, mood changes, and stress. She takes a straightforward, respectful approach and focuses on building trust from the first session.
She uses a mix of methods based on what a person needs. That can mean talking through thoughts and behaviors, looking at past patterns that keep repeating, or setting short-term goals to reduce immediate distress.
Background and approach
Treatment plans are discussed together so the person knows what to expect and can shape the process. Tressa has worked across many concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, phobias, ADHD, grief, and issues around self-esteem and identity. She also supports people dealing with career stress, parenting strain, compulsive behaviors, and body image struggles.
Her experience includes working with people who identify as LGBT and those facing compassion fatigue. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer understanding. People often learn ways to calm strong emotions, change unhelpful thinking, and repair patterns that cause conflict.
Tressa adapts the pace to the person - some want steady exploration, others want quick tools to cope. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing work. Sessions are held in English and organized around each person’s schedule and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, listening-based relationship where the therapist follows the person’s lead. It helps when someone needs empathy, understanding, and room to make their own decisions about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. That approach offers practical exercises and skills for reducing anxiety, managing mood, and tackling phobias or unhelpful thinking patterns.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods as issues become clearer and progress is reviewed regularly.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send shorter updates, try exercises between sessions, or get support when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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