About Thomas
Thomas Barlee is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Delaware who helps people facing relationship strain, anger, anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. He aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and set practical goals.
He uses plain conversation and focused techniques to help people notice what matters and make small, steady changes. Sessions are collaborative - clients and he decide on next steps together.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how daily routines, communication, and past experiences affect current struggles. Over nine years of practice, he has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and challenges tied to attention differences like ADHD. He also helps with issues such as intimacy, caregiving strain, and major life transitions.
His work includes addressing attachment and adoption or foster care concerns when they come up. Thomas blends approaches that encourage action and self-awareness. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and motivational conversation to help clients stay focused on what they value and what they can change.
Sessions are offered in English and may be scheduled through the online system. He accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Thomas often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on actions tied to personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try alternative responses. CBT gives concrete tools for managing stress, anger, and mood changes through practical exercises and skill practice.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and try different techniques when needed. The aim is to build strategies that feel useful in daily life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when life is changing.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English