Tova Pete
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tova
Tova Pete is a licensed professional counselor who takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. She blends practical techniques with respectful, collaborative conversation so people feel understood and heard. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping someone find realistic steps forward in daily life.
She focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and ADHD. Tova also addresses issues like attachment and abandonment, blended family challenges, communication problems, and family of origin conflicts.
Background and approach
She uses methods that help people change unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills. In sessions Tova uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on each person's needs. She often brings in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift thought and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotions feel intense and grounding is needed. Over 11 years in Texas practice have given her experience with a wide range of life transitions and relationship struggles. She describes therapy as a team effort and works to build trust through honest, respectful dialogue.
Treatment plans are collaborative and adjusted to match each person's goals and pace. Tova aims to help people take the first step toward change by offering clear tools and steady support. She encourages realistic goals and practical strategies so clients can see progress between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach helps create a respectful space where goals and pacing are guided by the person in therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through your goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means treatment is tailored to your needs rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around work and family responsibilities and continue care from home. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, assign small steps between sessions, and stay connected on progress.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
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