Thomes Buchanan, LPC, LPCC

Thomes Buchanan is a licensed professional counselor who practices in Ohio. She holds LPC and LPCC credentials and offers support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and other emotional struggles. Her focus includes issues such as self-esteem, ADHD, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related worries.

She centers sessions on each person’s story and current needs. Thomes aims to help people notice patterns that cause pain and try new ways of responding. Her style is warm and direct, with attention to cultural background and life transitions.

Clients often bring concerns about communication problems, commitment and attachment issues, or challenges after separation and divorce. She also works with people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image worries, and career or life-change decisions. Thomes addresses both practical skills and emotional processing in therapy.

Her methods draw from approaches like attachment-based work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, DBT skills, and emotionally focused techniques. Sessions usually mix problem-solving, skill practice, and moments to reflect on feelings and relationships.

Thomes has four years of clinical experience. She supports people through grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, eating or sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Her goal is to help people build clearer boundaries, steady routines, and stronger ways of relating to themselves and others.

How these approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based work pays attention to how people form bonds and respond when they feel threatened or alone. It helps with issues like abandonment fears, commitment worries, and patterns that repeat in relationships.

Client-centered therapy focuses on active listening and understanding the person's perspective. It creates space to tell your story and build goals at your own pace, which can help with self-esteem and major life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and to build routines for mood, sleep, or stress management.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Thomes will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and style. Sessions can blend approaches so that skill-building and emotional processing happen together.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a full in-person visit would be difficult. Licensed professionals adapt exercises, homework, and skills practice so they work across settings and day-to-day life.