About Brandon
Brandon Thoma is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on overall wellbeing and life fulfillment. He centers the person in the therapy process and aims to provide steady support. Brandon helps people identify what gets in the way of day-to-day functioning and works with them to set meaningful goals.
He challenges negative thoughts and unhelpful behaviors while teaching practical skills to manage emotions and decisions. Sessions often include straightforward tools clients can use between meetings to handle stress, impulsivity, or low mood.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking and stronger routines that help life feel more manageable. Brandon uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That blend helps him tailor sessions to each person's needs.
He brings attention to patterns from the past while focusing on concrete steps for change in the present. Brandon has eight years of experience in counseling and holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Missouri Baptist University. He practiced in Missouri and is licensed as an LPC in Missouri.
He conducts sessions in English. People often come for help with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, ADHD concerns, and substance use. He also addresses grief, trauma, self-esteem, and career-related stress.
Brandon works with adults and teenagers who want practical strategies and steady support. To begin, he encourages a clear discussion of immediate needs and realistic goals. He focuses on small, achievable changes while tracking progress over time.
How his approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work emphasizes listening and following the client's priorities. In practice this looks like sessions that begin with the client's immediate concerns and use their goals to guide each meeting. This approach is helpful when someone needs a respectful space to sort feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises and homework, which can be done between video or message sessions to build new habits. This approach suits people dealing with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, or patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to slow down and notice thoughts and bodily responses. These practices can reduce reactivity and improve attention, which many find helpful for stress and ADHD-related struggles. Brandon may introduce brief mindfulness practices adapted for video or audio sessions.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. He will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust as progress is tracked. The therapist and client decide together which tools to keep or change.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, processing between sessions, or when shorter written exchanges fit a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and practice skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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