About Tibor
Tibor Baukal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of practice experience. He focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and painful events. His straightforward approach helps people take the first steps toward change and healing.
He works with adults facing relationship strain, family conflict, and problems with romantic or work partners. He also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, neglect, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, anxiety, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Background and approach
Tibor addresses practical challenges such as sleep and eating concerns, addiction, anger, and career stress. In sessions he uses a mix of approaches that fit the person rather than a single method. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take steps that match those values.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for regulating strong emotions and improving coping skills. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas guide conversations about how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. Client-Centered elements keep the work grounded in each person’s experience and choices.
Together these styles shape flexible, down-to-earth support that focuses on problems people bring to therapy. Tibor invites people to share what’s most urgent and then builds a plan with clear steps. He emphasizes practical skills alongside deeper conversation.
If someone is ready to begin, he guides them through the first steps and matches the approach to their goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take committed action toward those values even when strong emotions are present. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where motivation and meaning are central. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more effectively. It can help with anger, self-regulation, and relationship strain. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change emotional responses that keep them stuck.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and then adapt techniques from these approaches to fit the situation. That way the plan stays practical and responsive as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging let people check in with shorter updates or work through tools between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, quicker ways to share concerns, and multiple ways to practice skills between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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