About Thomas
Thomas Conley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 12 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, and depression. He aims to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Thomas encourages small steps toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support along the way. In sessions he uses practical, evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
He also draws on attachment-focused work to understand how early relationships shape current reactions. Emotionally-focused and client-centered approaches guide him toward helping people feel heard and connected during hard conversations. Thomas works with issues ranging from impulsivity and guilt to family of origin concerns and blended family stress.
He helps people address substance use, codependency, abandonment fears, and decisions around divorce or separation. He also supports those looking to clarify life purpose or work through fatherhood challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Thomas uses a collaborative style - he listens, reflects, and helps clients set concrete goals. He adapts tools to fit each person’s life and pace. To begin, a simple matching process pairs a person with the therapist and scheduling follows.
Thomas describes the first step as the hardest but also the most hopeful part of change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, then focus on actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking and behavior patterns that keep stress and anxiety going and teaches practical skills to change them. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship experiences shape current reactions and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and life circumstances to decide which methods to try first. That plan can change as progress is made, and sessions remain a collaborative effort where the client’s feedback guides adjustments.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and practice new skills in daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English