About Thomas
Thomas Buckner, LCPC, helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and phobias. He offers a steady, respectful presence for people who feel overwhelmed by mood swings, low self-esteem, addictive behaviors, or major life changes. He keeps sessions practical and direct.
Conversations focus on what matters right now and on small steps that can make daily life easier. Thomas uses clear tools to manage stress, emotions, and relationship strain while honoring each person's pace.
Background and approach
Thomas draws on 15 years of experience as a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois. He combines evidence-informed methods to match the person's needs rather than using one fixed approach. That means work can look different depending on whether someone needs coping skills, emotion regulation, or help sorting a big decision.
People who meet with him can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. He pays attention to how attachment patterns, past hurt, and current stress shape reactions. Sessions often include practice between meetings so new habits stick.
Thomas also supports issues around identity, work, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and relationship difficulties. He works with clients on topics such as anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and recovery from abuse. His aim is to help people build clearer direction and more reliable coping in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and to clarify values that guide small, meaningful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Both approaches are practical and teach tools you can use between sessions to manage phobias, panic, or mood shifts.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about goals, preferences, and what seems to help, then adjust methods as progress and needs change. That collaborative stance means sessions can shift from skills training to exploring attachment patterns or emotion regulation as required.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues matter for skills practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for focused conversations. Chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or pacing support between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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