About Tibor
Tibor Baukal is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of experience. He focuses on emotional and relational struggles and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters to them. He often helps people who are coping with relationship difficulties and family stress.
He also supports those dealing with trauma, abuse, and neglect. His work covers anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addiction, and the strain of life changes.
How Tibor works
Tibor uses several approaches to guide sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered methods, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. He adapts tools and conversation to fit each person’s situation rather than using a single fixed method. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer understanding.
People talk through feelings, learn skills to manage stress, and practice new ways of relating to others. He pays attention to patterns that cause pain and points out small changes that make daily life easier. He supports people facing parenting pressures, grief, intimacy challenges, and issues around self-esteem and body image.
Tibor also assists those navigating career stress, caregiving burden, ADHD, and complicated family histories such as adoption or blended households. He speaks English and practices in Pennsylvania.
Tibor lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Tibor works with
The areas below are the ones Tibor selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with big life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current bonds; it can help with intimacy issues and recurring relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tibor will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation guides whether sessions focus on skill-building, deeper attachment work, or values-based action planning.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and let people choose the format that best supports steady progress.
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