About Tova
Tova Pete, LPC offers a collaborative, person-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her style is direct and respectful, aiming to help people feel heard and understood as they work toward change.
With 11 years of clinical experience in Texas, she draws on common-sense methods that people can use between sessions. She helps clients sort through grief, anger, intimacy concerns, and the everyday challenges of parenting and family life.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus when attention and task management become sources of frustration. Tova uses methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside Client-Centered and mindfulness-based approaches. Sessions often include concrete skills practice, problem-solving, and building better communication habits.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to clarify goals and find internal reasons to change. Her sessions are collaborative - she and the client set the plan together and adjust it as needed. People can expect practical homework and straightforward feedback aimed at real-world improvements.
The tone in sessions is warm but goal-focused. She works with adults facing life changes, career stress, self-esteem struggles, and trauma or abuse recovery. Her background includes supporting people through divorce and separation, blended family challenges, and family-of-origin issues.
Tova emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and helps clients build lasting coping tools.
How Tova’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel understood and can lead the direction of change. This approach helps when people want a supportive space to sort through feelings and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for regulating strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, relationship conflicts, and intense stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Early sessions review what feels most helpful and adapt the plan over time so techniques fit the client's daily life.
Online therapy allows for flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face-to-face for skills practice and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, brief skill prompts, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use strategies in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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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