Naomi West, LPC

Naomi West is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with three years of post-licensure experience and additional years working in inpatient mental health settings. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Naomi aims to meet people where they are and treat them with compassion and respect.

Before becoming an LPC Naomi spent five years working in hospital mental health settings. She worked both one-on-one and in group formats, gaining experience with a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. That background informs how she structures sessions and sets realistic goals.

Naomi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a client-centered approach to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, test new behaviors, and build on existing strengths. Sessions are focused and collaborative, with attention to small, achievable steps between meetings. She helps people practice skills they can use in daily life.

She also addresses concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about purpose. Naomi pays attention to how emotional patterns affect relationships and everyday functioning.

Naomi aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients' perspectives guide the work. She emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own stories and partners in the change process. Her style is warm, straightforward, and goal oriented.

How Naomi's approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace. In sessions Naomi prioritizes the client's perspective and builds a supportive relationship that helps people feel understood and heard.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Naomi uses CBT techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts, try different responses, and practice skills that reduce anxiety, improve mood, or ease stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Naomi discusses goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjusts methods as progress is made. This collaborative process makes it easier to focus on practical steps that matter to the client.

Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet. Video calls suit longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, symptom tracking, or carrying out between-session tasks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep practicing skills between meetings.