About Kevin
Kevin Brugman offers practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. He writes in a straightforward way and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Kevin is a Licensed Professional Counselor, or LPC, practicing in Texas with 16 years of experience.
He uses a caring, client-centered style that focuses on what matters to each person. Sessions tend to be calm and goal-oriented. Kevin helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small, practical changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Techniques come from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, combined with mindfulness and narrative work. That mix is used to address issues like low self-esteem, anger, impulsivity, and feelings of emptiness. He also helps with parenting stress, blended family concerns, fatherhood issues, and multicultural challenges.
Kevin often guides people through improving communication, setting clearer boundaries, and rebuilding trust after hurt. He helps people sort out career stress, life purpose questions, and isolation or loneliness. The focus is on building strengths and moving toward clear, realistic goals.
New clients are invited to share what they most want to change. Kevin listens, offers straightforward feedback, and collaborates on a plan. He aims to make therapy feel useful and doable, one step at a time.
How his approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still move toward what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles over life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce worry, manage anger, and challenge unhelpful thinking. Client-Centered Therapy centers on attentive listening and empathy so clients feel understood while they explore their goals and values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He treats approach selection as a team decision and adjusts methods based on a person's needs, goals, and what feels useful in session. Clients try ideas and give feedback so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, between-session support, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English