About Thomas
Thomas Schenck is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with three decades of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, grief, and related challenges. He works from the belief that each person knows their own story and brings strengths to recovery and change.
He aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Sessions center on listening, clarifying goals, and building tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
He encourages clients to use their existing strengths while trying new ways to cope with hard moments. Over his career Thomas has helped people address a wide range of concerns, including sleep and eating struggles, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and depression. He also provides support for trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Additional focuses include caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and substance use concerns. Thomas draws on a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. He uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful space, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and elements of Existential and Jungian approaches to look at meaning and life themes.
The Gottman Method informs his work around relationship patterns. People meet him for practical strategies and straightforward conversation. He offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
Sessions are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and building a trusting working relationship. Online sessions let Thomas offer steady, person-centered support while you describe what matters and set goals together.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. In video or phone sessions he can teach specific CBT strategies, assign short between-session tasks, and check progress during follow-ups.
Existential Therapy helps people examine meaning, values, and life choices when facing major changes or uncertainty. This approach can be useful for clients coping with loss, major transitions, or questions about purpose and direction.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Thomas will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different strategies. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as scheduling flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed; live chat and text-based messaging support quick updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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