About Trudy
Trudy Buckman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Kentucky and brings 14 years of professional experience to counseling. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, mood changes, and life transitions. Trudy aims to create a calm and straightforward space for people to talk about what matters to them.
Her background includes long experience in hospice care and work alongside a personal psychiatric practice.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her approach to grief, end-of-life concerns, mood disorders, and attention-related and anxiety challenges. She has also supported people affected by sexual assault and post-traumatic stress. Trudy uses practical, person-focused methods.
She draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused techniques to address specific problems and daily coping. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She blends straightforward conversation with grounded exercises and problem-solving.
Sessions can include skill practice for managing panic or mood shifts, talking through painful memories, and steps to improve relationships and family dynamics. Trudy is open to including faith when clients want that discussed. People who reach out should expect clear options and a focus on usable tools.
Her style tends to be warm, accepting, and sometimes light-hearted when appropriate. The goal is steady progress on the issues that disrupt everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Trudy commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on the person’s priorities and present concerns. This approach means conversations are led by what the client brings, and the therapist follows their pace to make decisions together.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT includes simple exercises and tools to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and change habits that cause distress. These exercises translate well to conversations over video or phone and can include worksheets or short between-session practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Trudy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That plan can change as therapy progresses, keeping the process flexible and responsive.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, quick coping strategies, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to practice skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English