Horace Lackey , LPC

Horace Lackey is a Texas-licensed marriage and family counselor with 31 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges. As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), he blends practical skills with a compassionate, listening presence to support people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns, grief, trauma, addiction, and related issues. His work also attends to attachment and codependency concerns, fatherhood and family-of-origin dynamics, and struggles with self-esteem, anger, and purpose.

Drawing primarily on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and client-centered techniques, Horace helps clients develop tools to manage thoughts and behaviors while creating a safe, respectful space for exploration. He encourages an active partnership in which clients are challenged to do the hard work of change while receiving steady guidance and support. His approach emphasizes real-world skills alongside empathy and nonjudgmental listening.

Married for 46 years and the parent of three grown children with six grandchildren, Horace brings both professional training and lived family experience to his practice. He aims to help clients find the courage and practical strategies to face difficulties and move toward a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Horace commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skill-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges. Client-centered therapy centers the client's experience - the therapist offers empathic listening and support while the client leads the pace and direction of change, which is especially helpful for people seeking a respectful, collaborative space to explore personal or relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Horace works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time as progress unfolds. Licensed professionals and therapists often combine elements from different approaches to tailor care to the individual.

Online therapy with Horace can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or limited local options. These formats make it easier to maintain consistency in care and to access support from wherever the client is located within the therapist's service area.