About Troy
Troy Gibson is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 10 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges with self-esteem and addictions.
Background and approach
He also works with concerns such as LGBT-related stress, family and blended family issues, career transitions, and a range of attachment and control-related patterns. His practice attention extends to areas like body image, codependency, commitment struggles, and issues connected to caregiving and aging.
His therapeutic stance is conversational and strengths-based, blending insight-oriented work with practical strategies. Troy draws from Client-Centered principles to create a collaborative atmosphere, uses Emotionally-Focused ideas to address relational dynamics, and incorporates Existential perspectives and Mindfulness techniques to explore meaning and present-moment awareness.
He also brings psychodynamic thinking to help identify recurring patterns and the origins of difficult emotions. Sessions may include exploration of unfinished business, development of new awareness, and concrete steps toward change.
Clients can expect an empathic, multicultural-sensitive approach that aims to empower and challenge as needed. Troy practices from Illinois and conducts therapy in English, offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences.
He is not accepting international clients.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Troy integrates Client-Centered Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) in his online practice. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental stance where the therapist listens closely and supports each person’s own capacity for growth, which is useful for building self-esteem and navigating life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and resolve patterns that fuel conflict or distance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will collaborate with clients to determine which combination of methods best fits their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting focus as awareness and circumstances evolve. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to both immediate concerns and deeper patterns that may emerge over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing people to engage in therapy in ways that fit their schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing other commitments, and they support different communication styles for exploring emotions, developing insight, and practicing new strategies.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English