About Kurt
Kurt Billups is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD. He practices from Texas and offers straightforward, humane care aimed at making daily life more livable. Kurt keeps sessions practical and focused on what matters to each person.
Kurt's background includes work in inpatient settings and psychological assessment. Those roles shaped how he notices patterns and plans clear steps forward.
Background and approach
He draws on many evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors them to each person's situation. In sessions he provides a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk about hard things. Conversations cover feelings, behavior, and the small changes that add up.
He helps people break big problems into manageable next steps. Kurt works with people on relationship concerns, communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, and the effects of abandonment or attachment issues. He also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image, and the impacts of divorce or domestic violence.
He is experienced with topics around LGBT identity and with exploration of kink and alternative sex cultures. For parents and people connected to adoption or foster care, he helps sort complex emotions and practical decisions. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques often used in Kurt's practice focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing everyday behavior patterns. Cognitive-style approaches help people notice negative thinking and practice new, more balanced responses to stress or anxiety. Behavioral strategies break goals into small, doable steps to reduce avoidance and build useful habits.Another common thread is working on relationship and attachment concerns through structured conversation and skill practice. That can mean learning clearer communication, setting boundaries, or rehearsing difficult talks so interactions at home feel more manageable.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match the client's goals, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around daily life and scheduling demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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