About Tibor
Tibor Baukal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who uses practical, relationship-focused therapy to help people manage anxiety, trauma, and life changes. He draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs and goals. Tibor aims to make the first step feel manageable and straightforward for worried parents and individuals.
He commonly helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, or problems with romantic and work partners.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with grief, addictions, sleep or eating concerns, mood symptoms like depression and bipolar challenges, and stress related to caregiving or career change. In sessions Tibor creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings and reactions. He blends acceptance-based tools and emotion-focused work to address painful experiences from trauma, abuse, or abandonment.
He also uses skills-based strategies when someone needs help managing strong emotions or impulsive behavior. Tibor has 17 years of experience working with adults across a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, attachment difficulties, body image issues, and concerns related to kink and alternative sexual culture.
He connects therapeutic goals to everyday life so people can try small changes between sessions and see what helps. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a person uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people recognize patterns that affect trust and closeness; it is often helpful for intimacy and relationship concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in relationships so people can express needs more clearly and connect differently with partners or family.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the focus based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to choose which methods to emphasize and when to practice new skills between sessions.
Offering therapy online by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues during emotion-focused work, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, live chat supports shorter updates, and text messaging allows ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to attend sessions from different places and to use the format that best fits a person's routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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