About Tibor
Tibor Baukal uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people who are overwhelmed by relationship pain, trauma, or life changes. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. Tibor aims to make the first steps of therapy feel manageable and clear for someone who is worried or unsure.
He works with people facing problems in relationships, family tensions, and challenges with romantic or work partners.
Background and approach
He also supports those who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect. Sessions focus on honest conversation, learning skills, and finding clearer ways to cope day to day. In the therapy room he prioritizes openness and nonjudgmental listening.
People can expect a calm space to talk through feelings and concerns. Tibor helps clients notice patterns that cause pain and then practices alternatives that reduce distress. He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused techniques, and Client-Centered work.
These approaches are used to improve emotion regulation, relationship connection, and coping with difficult memories. Tibor often helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, addiction concerns, eating and sleeping issues, anger, and self-esteem struggles. He also addresses areas such as ADHD, commitment worries, body image, blended-family stress, and caregiver burden.
Therapy moves at a pace that fits each person’s goals and life demands.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about noticing painful thoughts and feelings without letting them block the life you want to live. It helps people clarify values and take small actions that matter. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and helps people build safer emotional connections. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and handling conflict without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tibor will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Therapy plans are adjusted over time so the approach fits what is actually helping in day-to-day life.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from different locations. Phone sessions and live chat can be easier to fit into a work break or a busy day, and text-based messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English