About Horace
Horace Lackey is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas with 31 years of experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. He aims to listen without judgment and to support people through hard moments.
He draws on straightforward, practical methods. Sessions tend to mix client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
He also uses attachment-based ideas and trauma-focused tools when they fit the situation. Horace emphasizes a warm, direct style. He offers a caring ear while also challenging people to do the work that leads to change.
That balance is meant to help people build skills, repair relationships, and reduce overwhelming feelings. His background includes long clinical practice in Texas and decades of personal experience with family life. He mentions marriage and parenthood as part of his life story, which informs his understanding of parenting, fatherhood issues, and family of origin concerns.
In therapy, people can expect practical steps and thoughtful conversation. Horace helps clients tackle problems like codependency, commitment issues, grief, shame, and social anxiety. He focuses on small, doable changes that add up to clearer thinking and better relationships.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and feelings. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in closeness and work to change how they relate to others. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, listening approach where the person leads the pace and topics; this helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through worries and life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to emphasize. That collaborative plan can change over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel time. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat can provide a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a work break, a quiet evening, or a day with childcare demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English