About Tommy
Tommy Pool is a licensed professional counselor with three decades of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship and family tensions, depression, trauma, grief, and issues around intimacy and parenting. Tommy keeps sessions direct and simple.
He creates an open space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. He listens first, then helps clients set clear, manageable goals for change. His work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas are woven in when they fit the client's goals. Tommy uses practical tools people can use between sessions.
That might include simple mindfulness practices, communication strategies, or step-by-step plans for cutting back on substances or harmful habits. The focus is on what helps someone feel better and function more effectively day to day. He practices in Texas and brings 30 years of experience to each conversation.
New clients are guided through a straightforward start-up process so they can move from first contact to scheduled sessions without extra hassle.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own perspective and goals. In practice that means sessions begin with listening and reflecting so the client sets the pace and priorities, which helps with issues like relationship conflict, grief, and self-esteem.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that cause difficulty and then testing small, practical changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, addiction-related habits, and anger by giving clear steps people can try between sessions.
Emotionally-focused ideas help people notice and name core emotions and the patterns they create in close relationships. Those techniques can be helpful when intimacy, attachment, or communication patterns are part of the problem.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps find what actually helps an individual move forward.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to an in-person conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins or brief work, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work consistent and focused.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English