About Si
Si Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. He offers a calm, straightforward style that aims to make conversations feel manageable. Parents and adults often turn to him for help with parenting strain, grief, ADHD concerns, and life transitions.
He grew up in the Northwest and now lives in North Idaho. Si earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Idaho and a Master of Social Work from Boise State University.
Background and approach
Over nine years he has worked in schools, wilderness programs for teens, mentoring roles, and community service with AmeriCorps. Si favors approaches that honor each person's strengths and choices. He draws on client-centered listening, cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thoughts, and existential ideas about meaning and values.
Practical tools - like journaling, role-play, relaxation work, and creative exercises - are often part of sessions when they help. Sessions focus on clear goals and useful steps. Si uses education, gentle challenge, and curiosity to help people notice patterns and try different options.
He supports people coping with trauma, parenting concerns, intimacy issues, and career stress among other challenges. People can expect straightforward language and a respectful tone in sessions. Si aims to help people find ways to reduce distress and make choices that fit their lives.
He welcomes clients from Idaho and beyond, and works with individuals who want a collaborative, practical approach.
How Si’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to each person. Online sessions use this approach to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s goals guide the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking. Many online appointments include homework, thought records, and step-by-step behavior experiments that are easy to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to prioritize skill-building, meaning-focused conversations, or a mix of methods based on what the client needs.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break in a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English