About Tova
Tova Pete is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses a warm, collaborative style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She keeps sessions straightforward and respectful, and she focuses on practical steps people can use between appointments. Tova aims to build honest, reliable therapeutic relationships so clients feel heard and understood.
With 11 years of experience, she draws on approaches that fit the person rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
How Tova works
That means combining client-centered listening with structured tools when needed. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and mindfulness practices to address patterns that cause emotional pain. Tova helps people work through parenting strain, blended family difficulties, and communication problems.
She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, and self-esteem concerns. Other focus areas include ADHD, career stress, codependency, and family of origin issues. Her sessions emphasize clear goals and small, manageable changes.
Tova works with clients to identify what matters most and then practices skills during and between sessions. She uses motivational interviewing when people face tough decisions or need help making lasting changes. People looking for flexible session formats can expect options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Tova guides each person toward the mix of strategies that fit their life and goals.
Tova lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Tova works with
The areas below are the ones Tova selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- 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
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online counseling and skill building
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people name goals so sessions feel relevant and respectful. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and habits; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines emotional acceptance with skill building in areas like emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with intense emotions, anger, and relationship struggles.Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying a technique, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together until it fits the client's life and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when a longer session or visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and messaging let people send thoughts between sessions and use brief check-ins when schedules are tight. These formats help clients fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person care.
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