Si Thompson
Support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Si
Si Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who aims to help parents and caregivers facing stress, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and related concerns. He speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what a family is trying to change. Sessions focus on practical steps that people can try between meetings so they see small improvements over time.
He trained in social work and has worked in schools, wilderness counseling, and residential programs.
Background and approach
That range of roles gave him hands-on experience supporting people in different settings and at different ages. He draws on nine years of practice to tailor each plan to a person’s situation. In sessions he emphasizes connection, curiosity, and clear communication.
He prefers to meet people where they are and to treat them as partners in the work. He also uses tools that help change thought patterns and daily routines when those are getting in the way.
Therapeutic techniques include cognitive behavioral strategies to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts, client-centered methods that honor each person’s perspective, and existential ideas that focus on meaning and choices. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in when they fit a person’s goals. He is licensed in Idaho as an LCSW, ID LCSW LCSW-35216, and provides services in English.
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for people who prefer remote options.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so people feel understood and can explore what matters to them. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through parenting decisions, relationship stress, or life shifts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thought patterns and trying small, practical changes in thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, mood concerns, and daily stressors because it gives clear steps someone can practice between sessions.
Si sees finding the right approach as a shared process. He works with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, combining client-centered listening with CBT tools or existential questions about meaning when those fit. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels manageable and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet the same goals as in-person therapy. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions give a simpler option, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, journaling prompts, or short exercises between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to use therapeutic tools in real-life moments.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
Next step
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