About Tova
Tova Pete is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses a respectful, collaborative style. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and trouble concentrating. Tova keeps sessions straightforward and grounded so people can talk about what matters now.
She blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients get a mix of close listening and clear tools to manage thoughts, emotions, and reactions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are available when people want strategies for self-awareness and making lasting changes. Over eleven years of work in counseling settings have shaped her approach. She draws on experience helping people navigate grief, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and major life transitions.
Tova also addresses specific concerns like abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, and body image issues. Sessions tend to focus on setting small, achievable goals. Tova helps clients notice patterns, practice new skills, and adapt plans when life shifts.
She frames therapy as a joint effort where the client’s goals guide the work. People who choose her often want practical steps alongside supportive listening. Tova emphasizes respect, honesty, and steady encouragement while helping clients build useful skills for daily life.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Tova commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s goals, creating space for people to say what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and interpersonal skills are needed. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress without acting impulsively. Together these methods offer both understanding and clear strategies to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and challenges. That process can include trying techniques, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time so it fits each person’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in more frequently, do short updates, or complete brief exercises between longer sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English