- Direct and encouraging
- Focus on strengths
- Practical coping skills
About Toni
Toni Lawrence is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Texas. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings eight years of professional counseling experience to her work. Toni also has sixteen years of military service in her background. She approaches sessions with respect for each person’s story and strengths, and she aims to help people take practical steps toward change.
Toni helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and anger. She also supports those coping with trauma, PTSD, sexual assault, and domestic violence. She works with people facing identity and LGBT concerns, low self-esteem, and the impact of major life changes.
Her practice includes attention to attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and the challenges faced by first responders and veterans. Toni also addresses dissociation, panic attacks, ADHD, and mood dysregulation. She uses a variety of clinical approaches to meet the needs her clients bring.
In sessions she treats clients as collaborators. She listens first, then helps set concrete goals and steps. Her manner is straightforward and encouraging, focused on building skills and self-understanding.
Toni believes starting therapy is an act of courage. She works to support and empower people as they try new ways of coping. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist's availability.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape patterns in close connections. Online work can help people notice these patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and themselves. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace, with the therapist following the client's lead; that approach fits well with online conversations that prioritize what matters most to the client. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, mixes skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness with support for using those skills in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend approaches that seem like a good fit. That plan can be adjusted over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, remove travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when a brief update is all that's needed. It also makes it possible to continue work after a move or while keeping other daily commitments. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, skills practice, and processing work to the online setting so therapy stays focused and useful.
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Experience
8+ years
Credentials
Texas, Massachusetts
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Toni commonly help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, trauma and abuse, PTSD, and identity-related issues including LGBT concerns.
What is Toni's therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and practical steps to try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Toni has eight years of professional counseling experience and sixteen years of military service that inform her work.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Texas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with Toni?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.