About Tressa
Tressa Bloom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 27 years of clinical experience. She brings a long-term curiosity about human behavior to her work and uses that perspective to help people sort through difficult emotions and life changes. She meets people where they are and shapes treatment to each person’s needs.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. Decisions about techniques and direction are made together so the plan fits what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, depression, grief, eating concerns, parenting strain, career issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people with relationship and family challenges and a variety of personality and attachment issues. Treatment draws from several approaches.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior to test and change them. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s experience and priorities. Psychodynamic ideas can illuminate long-standing patterns that repeat over time.
Tressa aims for a calm, direct style that keeps sessions focused and useful. She values an honest working relationship and encourages questions about anything in therapy. Her background in community and clinical psychology informs a flexible approach that adapts as needs shift.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening to the person’s experience and following their lead to set goals and pace. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying what matters most in a person’s life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and develop new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and past experiences and then choose or blend methods. That collaborative decision making helps shape a plan that fits the person’s needs.
Online sessions offer several practical advantages. Video calls provide face-to-face contact when travel is difficult. Phone sessions can be a good option for lower bandwidth or for people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, focused problem-solving, and flexible scheduling during busy days.
These formats make therapy easier to fit into daily life while still allowing therapists to guide change and track progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English