Thomas Floyd, LCSW-C, LICSW

Thomas Floyd is a licensed social worker with more than 46 years of professional experience. He offers a calm, straightforward approach to common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and motivation. He emphasizes open conversation and practical steps to help people feel more confident and steady.

He creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard feelings. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person, and on small changes that add up over time. He listens first, then works with clients to set realistic goals for coping and growth.

Thomas uses methods drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas. He also brings mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools into sessions when they fit the client's goals. Narrative therapy ideas are used to help people make sense of their stories and find new ways forward.

His background includes long experience across many challenges, from relationship and intimacy issues to addictions, sleep and eating concerns, caregiving stress, and chronic health problems. He also addresses parenting strains, attachment and adoption-related topics, and career or life transition worries.

Thomas is licensed in Maryland as an LCSW-C and holds an LICSW in the District of Columbia. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, people are invited to follow the site process to answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How Thomas Uses Therapy Methods Online

Thomas draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to each person's priorities, which helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches simple tools to change unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will talk with clients about goals and preferences and adjust methods together. That collaborative planning helps match techniques like mindfulness exercises or motivational interviewing to what the person needs right now.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as the profile does not list specific online formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow quicker check-ins between sessions. Some approaches work well in shorter or more focused visits, while others need slightly longer time to practice new skills; the therapist will help decide what format and pace suit each client.