Find a Therapist near Windsor, CT

An unanswered text can turn into wondering what you did wrong. A difficult conversation can end with apologizing before you've said what hurt. Keeping the peace may feel easier in the moment, but leave you feeling unheard or questioning whether you're asking too much. I help adults understand these patterns and practice responding differently. Sometimes we explore earlier experiences, like having feelings dismissed or learning to handle everything alone. You don't need to identify your childhood as traumatic for those experiences to matter. Therapy with me is conversational, active, and direct. I'll ask questions, offer honest feedback, and help connect the dots. There's room to feel understood and to be challenged, with your perspective shaping our work. We'll connect insight to everyday situations: expressing a need, following through on a boundary, or noticing self-doubt before it takes over. I work with anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional neglect, and complicated family dynamics, balancing exploration with practical strategies. You don't need to have it all figured out before reaching out. I offer a free 10–15 minute consultation to talk about what you're looking for and see if we're a good fit.

“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think.  Speech is part of thought.” — Oliver Sacks. Oliver Sacks understood something that I have come to deeply respect—that connecting with others and talking out loud are meaningful practices that can change lives. At many points in our lives we simply need someone to listen. Be it a longstanding mental illness or a life change that creates mixed up thoughts and feelings, sometimes we simply need an educated ear. I have a unique background, having worked in addictions, inpatient and outpatient counseling, and school social work. I have a considerable amount of experience helping parents better connect with their children, working with schools to reach every student, and helping people understand how social environments can both hold them back and facilitate success. Throughout my career, moreover, I have maintained a sharp focus on the complexities and consequences of trauma. As a clinician practicing in these increasingly uncertain and stressful times, I am committed to partnering with you, and will work with you toward achieving the desired relief and growth that will help you pursue the life you want. I am trained in CBT, aspects of DBT, Parent Behavior Training, psychological first aid, social emotional learning, family systems, psychodynamic theory, feminist theory, and humanistic theory.  I take a strengths-based and holistic approach to working with each client, preferring to tailor my treatment style to meet individual needs.  With a casual sense of humor and creative nature, I aim to help you feel heard and understood, to empower you to make meaningful change.

Each of us has a unique story that reflects our life experiences and helps to shape our perspective of the world around us and how we view ourselves. Therapy is an opportunity to explore and understand your life story, heal from painful emotions, identify and build upon your strengths, and create lasting change to improve your overall sense of well-being. As your therapist, I aim to foster a warm, supportive, and collaborative therapeutic environment where you feel safe to engage in self-exploration and reach your goals. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, I have training and experience working with teensadolescents, adults, and families dealing with diverse challenges, including depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, life stressors, low self-esteem, and justice involvement. My approach to therapy is both person-centered and integrative as I believe it is important for us to develop a strong therapeutic relationship while also considering your specific needs. It takes courage to seek a happier and more fulfilling life. I am here to support you as you take these steps toward positive change.

Leading Light Behavioral Health is more than a traditional therapy practice. We are a comprehensive, trauma-informed behavioral health teaching practice committed to helping people rewrite the “I can’t” narrative. We combine evidence-based individual, couples, child, adolescent, family, and group clinical care with psychological evaluations, community-based services, clinician training, leadership consultation, and culturally responsive treatment under one organization. Our team specializes in serving individuals, families, and communities that have historically faced barriers to quality mental health care, with particular expertise in trauma, neurodiversity, forensic and court-related evaluations, and the unique experiences of Black women. What truly makes us different is our commitment to empowering both clients and future clinicians through education, innovation, and compassionate care that recognizes strengths, restores dignity, and creates lasting change. Unlike practices that focus solely on symptom reduction, we help people build lives they do not have to recover from by integrating treatment, assessment, education, community support, and prevention into one continuum of care.

Through the use of evidenced-based, client-centered therapies, I help people live with mental health issues and over time reimagine these divergences as features, not flaws. I specialize in the treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Please feel free to reach out any time. I look forward to connecting with you.

Couples seek my help when they are ready to get unstuck from dissatisfying patterns. Others seek help to overcome sexual dysfunction or to increase their sexual pleasure. Helping others to live satisfying lives and love relationships is my goal and passion. For a person to live a satisfying life, individually or as a couple, he or she must develop emotional strength and the ability to love. To stand for oneself and to be true to oneself takes strength. A individual needs to love him or herself deeply, others and life, in order to have fulfilling relationships and life satisfaction. The treatment I offer individuals and couples is focused on guidance to develop strength and deep love for oneself, romantic partners and others. I guide couples in all forms of safe and consensual partner play.

Welcome to Walk Good Therapy - where you can find your path away from anxious thoughts, depressive periods, the weight of trauma and suffering, and toward healing. Therapy with me is a journey of exploring and seeking out deeper understanding to help you find strength and clarity. Together, we will dive into your experiences as they've unfolded so far and propel you to expand the picture of what you want your life to look like. I hold a doctorate in clinical psychology from William James College, specializing in child and family psychology. My clinical expertise is in working with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, life transitions, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), identity issues, posttraumatic stress (PTSD), and other stressors. I draw on modalities of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), narrative therapy, and family systems. I am a clinical psychologist seeing individual clients in navigating life transitions, stress, identity issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other challenges. I operate from orientations of liberation, social justice, racial justice, empowerment, feminism, and cultural respect. Any point in your life can be a moment of realization—a point when something feels out of place, and you're driven to explore and question what you know and understand about yourself and the world at large. These are the moments when I join you in support of reaching deeper cohesion in how you want to experience yourself and move through the world. I hope we can work together to create a little more ease in your life, so that you feel empowered to Walk Good on the next part of your journey!

I am a compassionate, experienced psychologist, in practice for over 35 years. I have been fortunate to have a vocation that is my avocation; and, relatedly, I expend substantial effort in ever-broadening my skills so that I can be as effective as possible in helping my clients reach their goals. In addition to clients that I help in my practice as a therapist, I enjoy helping others through the self-help books that I write for adults, and for children and their parents.

Please contact me via email. It is the best way to reach me. I provide individual mental health counseling services and strive to create an atmosphere where my clients can feel empowered, respected, safe, and understood. In my practice, I work with a wide variety of problems and difficulties; however, areas of particular expertise include treatment for anxiety, depression, anger management, alcohol and substance abuse, and trauma. Additionally, I am a Certified Anger Management Specialist-II and also approved by OASAS to provide Clinical Screening and Assessment services for motorists who have been charged with or convicted of an impaired driving offense.

Thomas “Tom” Walters is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (MHC) in Indiana and Massachusetts with over 10 years of experience partnering with adolescents, adults, and couples seeking help with depression, anxiety, substance use, posttraumatic stress (PTSD), trauma, problematic sexual behaviors, and relationship issues.