About Trudy
Trudy Buckman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience. She practices from Kentucky and draws on years of work with hospice care and outpatient psychiatric settings. Trudy is a U.S.
Air Force veteran and brings that background to her clinical perspective. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, anger, mood disorders, and ADHD. She also supports those facing trauma, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Practical concerns such as caregiver stress, family problems, parenting strain, and coping with major life changes are within her focus. Trudy uses a client-centered stance that follows the person's lead. She often blends cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies to build skills and find concrete steps forward.
Trauma-focused work is used when past harm is getting in the way of daily life. Sessions may include straightforward talk, practical skill-building, short-term goal setting, or creative options when helpful. Trudy is comfortable including faith when a client wants that and is respectful of other beliefs or none.
She also brings a warm sense of humor and an accepting manner to the work. Her background in hospice care gives experience with end-of-life concerns, bereavement, and working with guilt or shame. Years in outpatient psychiatric settings exposed her to ADHD, panic attacks, bipolar symptoms, and the ways personality and mood can affect day-to-day functioning.
Trudy aims to collaborate on realistic steps people can try between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Trudy often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and everyday coping skills.She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to work through the effects of past harm and reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life. This approach aims to help people process memories and learn ways to manage triggers and flashbacks.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Trudy will work with each person to match methods to their goals, pace, and preferences, checking in and adjusting plans as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility to use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people meet face to face when bandwidth allows, phone sessions can work when audio only is easier, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or brief problem-solving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to choose the format that helps someone engage most effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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