Tommy Pool
Calm, practical counseling for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tommy
Tommy Pool is a Licensed Professional Counselor with three decades of practice in Texas. He uses a straightforward, person-focused style to help adults address stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strains, and family concerns. He creates a calm space where people can say what they think and feel without worrying about judgment.
Taking the first step toward help can feel hard, and he acknowledges that effort when someone reaches out. Tommy draws on practical therapy methods to address everyday problems.
Background and approach
He blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. He also uses emotionally focused techniques to understand patterns in relationships and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and build attention. Over 30 years Tommy has worked with a wide range of issues, including grief, trauma, parenting stresses, and substance-related problems.
He also consults on topics such as caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, and communication difficulties. His approach aims to be clear and usable so people can apply what they learn between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Texas.
Tommy communicates plainly and focuses on concrete steps a person can take. He encourages people to start where they are and figure out change one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility
Tommy integrates client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral therapy in his online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and supporting a person's own goals, which helps when someone needs space to sort feelings or make decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaches concrete techniques to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and many daily challenges.He approaches online care as a collaborative process. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful and practical for the person's life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings. People can choose formats that suit how they communicate and how much real-time interaction they want, making therapy more accessible from different locations in Texas.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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- Stop at any point