About Thomas
Thomas Potter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. He practices in Oklahoma and approaches therapy in a straightforward, people-first way. Thomas aims to make the first step less daunting and helps clients outline what matters most to them.
He has worked across community mental health, hospice settings, and with Veterans, bringing practical experience from varied environments. Thomas uses a strength-based focus and centers sessions on the here and now.
Background and approach
He helps people set goals and stay in the driver’s seat of their care while offering guidance and tools. In sessions he listens closely and encourages open conversation. If a particular technique isn’t helpful, he will discuss other options or assist with a transition to another therapist.
The emphasis is on finding what actually helps the individual, not on fitting them to a method. Typical concerns he addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, trauma and ADHD-related challenges. He also supports people navigating life changes, caregiving strain, illness and end-of-life matters, and issues around self-esteem and relationships.
Thomas blends practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, narrative work, and motivational interviewing. He aims to teach skills people can use between sessions while also validating difficult feelings. The goal is gradual, manageable change that fits day-to-day life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following your lead, helping you name goals and priorities in a way that feels authentic. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches clear skills for managing anxiety, mood, sleep, and daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Thomas will work together with clients to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. That collaboration can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets you work face to face when you want deeper conversation, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging work for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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