About Thomas
Thomas Buckner is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois who helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and mood challenges. He works with concerns like addiction, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and stress. He also supports those dealing with relationship and family strain, career shifts, and grief from separation or loss.
His style is calm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of him. He listens, helps name patterns, and offers concrete steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Thomas blends body-focused work with evidence-based talk approaches. He uses Somatic methods to notice how the body holds stress and emotion. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and commit to values-based action.
With 15 years of practice as an IL LCPC he has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, bipolar and depressive moods, and complex attachment or personality-related struggles. Thomas pays attention to how past experiences shape present reactions and relationships. Sessions are aimed at practical, manageable change.
People leave with clearer choices and tools for daily life. He welcomes clients who want steady support, practical coaching, and a thoughtful path toward feeling more grounded.
Approaches that meet you where you are
Thomas blends Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-based ideas. Somatic work focuses on how stress and emotion show up in the body and offers gentle ways to notice and shift those physical patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when hard feelings show up. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships affect current trust and connection, and help people try new, safer ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your goals, symptoms, and preferences and together you will decide which methods fit best. That collaborative process helps shape an individualized plan rather than a one-size-fits-all path.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Thomas provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on goals, practice new skills between meetings, and get support from wherever you are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English