About Brandon
Brandon Thoma is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on overall well-being and life fulfillment. He puts the client first and aims to provide steady, nonjudgmental support. Brandon encourages a growth and excellence mindset while helping people tackle the things that hold them back.
He works with adults and teenagers who face depression, anxiety, and relationship challenges. Brandon also has experience addressing substance use, trauma, and other severe mental health issues.
Background and approach
He uses practical tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build confidence in daily life. Brandon combines a person-centered stance with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means sessions often start by listening closely to what matters most to the person.
From there he offers hands-on strategies and small, doable changes to improve mood, reduce worry, and manage stress. He earned a Master’s degree in Counseling from Missouri Baptist University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Southeast Missouri State. Brandon holds an LPC, License Professional Counselor, and has eight years of experience in mental health work, with practice rooted in Missouri.
His style is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps. People who want supportive guidance and clear tools to change patterns often find this approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Brandon blends a person-centered approach with cognitive behavioral therapy to meet people where they are. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting connection so they can explore goals and make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brandon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their goals and preferences. That may mean starting with listening and validation, then adding CBT techniques or mindfulness exercises over time as needs become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more doable on a busy schedule. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a work break or low-bandwidth situation, and chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options give flexibility so people can keep momentum while balancing other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English