About Buddy
Buddy Duncan offers straightforward help for people facing hard times. He focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and work through grief. He also helps people coping with depression, addiction history, chronic pain, and changes like divorce or career shifts.
He has worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor for about 20 years in Texas. Early in his career he supported people dealing with addiction and later spent significant time with clients facing severe medical issues and long-term pain.
Background and approach
For many years he has helped people navigate grief and loss and offered support during major life transitions. Buddy uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. He also practices client-centered therapy, giving people space to talk and guiding sessions by their concerns.
Sessions focus on concrete, doable steps rather than jargon or abstract theory. He has taught psychology at the college level and acted as an academic advisor, experiences that shaped his clear, educational style. Many clients come for help with relationships, communication problems, fatherhood concerns, or workplace stress.
He also addresses issues such as intimacy, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, and low self-esteem. In sessions people can expect calm, direct conversation and collaborative planning. Buddy aims to help clients find choices that lead to real changes.
Therapy is paced to what each person needs and adjusted as goals evolve.
How Buddy’s Methods Work Online
Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and lets conversations follow what matters most to the client. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps people name goals so sessions build from their priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying concrete behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, stress, and habits that interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans can shift over time as progress is made or priorities change, so treatment stays practical and collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people have a full conversation like an in-person visit. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging let someone check in between appointments or use briefer contacts when needed. These options support ongoing work without extra travel and help fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English