About Troy
Troy Gibson is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people facing common and complex concerns. He works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and issues related to identity and intimacy. He also supports people navigating career changes, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life transitions.
Troy uses a conversational, strengths-based style in sessions. He aims to make therapy feel approachable and often brings a touch of humor when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building insight and practical tools so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. He draws on client-centered principles, emotionally-focused ideas, existential questions, mindfulness, and psychodynamic perspectives. In practice that means listening closely to what matters to each person, noticing patterns, and experimenting with small changes that fit real life.
He invites clients to explore how past experiences shape current choices and relationships. Troy has about 10 years of experience in mental health settings. His background includes individual and group work in inpatient and outpatient hospital units, plus independent practice experience that included couples therapy.
That variety informs how he adapts sessions to different needs. He pays attention to multicultural factors and minority stress, and he aims to meet people where they are. For someone looking for a collaborative, insight-oriented therapist who blends practical strategies with reflective work, Troy offers a straightforward, human approach.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience without judgment. Online sessions using this approach prioritize the client's perspective and aim to build trust and clearer self-understanding, which can help with anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying emotions and patterns in relationships. In remote work, EFT helps people name hard feelings, track interaction cycles, and practice new responses that improve connection and reduce conflict.
Existential therapy brings attention to values, meaning, and life choices. It invites questions about purpose and responsibility and can be useful for people coping with major life changes, career decisions, or feelings of emptiness.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging makes it easy to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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