About Thomas
Thomas Schenck is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with three decades of clinical experience. He focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strains, and challenges to self-esteem. He meets people where they are and works alongside them to set realistic goals.
He believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that therapy should build on existing strengths. Sessions focus on clear steps people can use between meetings, not only talk.
Background and approach
Thomas aims to make the process understandable and manageable for someone juggling work, family, and other obligations. Over 30 years he has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, career stress, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. He also addresses family-of-origin patterns, codependency, caregiver stress, and substance use challenges.
His experience includes supporting people through major life transitions like divorce, aging, and loss. His approach blends client-centered listening with goal-focused methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and elements of existential and Jungian thinking. He also uses the Gottman Method for relationship work when appropriate.
The result is a flexible mix that focuses on what helps each person most. Thomas uses straightforward language in sessions and helps people create small, practical changes. He supports clients in building tools for managing emotions, improving communication, and coping with difficult situations.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience without judgment. It centers on listening, reflecting, and helping people identify their own solutions to problems such as anxiety, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, improving sleep, reducing addictive behaviors, and changing patterns that fuel low mood.
Existential therapy helps people face big life questions and find meaning during transitions and loss. It can be helpful when coping with aging, major change, or struggles with identity and purpose.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Thomas will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may blend styles and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when writing thoughts feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English