About Horace
Horace Lackey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 31 years of experience. He focuses on everyday stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship and family concerns. He brings a steady, practical approach and a calm presence to sessions.
He uses straightforward, skills-based work such as cognitive behavioral techniques. He also centers the conversation on the person's needs, listening first and helping people decide what changes matter most. Sessions move at a steady pace with gentle challenges and real tasks to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a nonjudgmental space where the therapist listens closely. He asks direct questions and offers concrete tools for managing worry, anger, low mood, and relationship strain. He also helps people sort through family of origin issues, attachment struggles, and codependency patterns.
When trauma or painful memories are present, he combines emotion-focused work with trauma-informed methods to help people process strong feelings. He supports fathers dealing with parenting strain and men navigating life purpose and shame without assuming a single path forward. Horace draws on decades of clinical work to guide practical steps toward change.
He encourages steady effort and clear goals. If someone wants a listening ear plus actionable strategies, his style blends warmth with purpose.
Approaches to emotion and relationship work online
Horace commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience so they feel heard and supported, which helps with loneliness, guilt, and relationship strain. CBT teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and anger management.He also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationships or attachment issues are central, helping people name emotions and change interaction patterns. The therapist works together with each person to decide which approach fits their goals and preferences, adapting methods as progress is made rather than using a single technique from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches that match each person's schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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