About Byron
Dr. Byron Skinner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Texas with more than 36 years of professional experience.
Background and approach
He draws on a long career that includes work as a college professor and as a practicing therapist. He aims for respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care while helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
Dr. Skinner helps people who are coping with grief, depression, anger, and intimacy-related concerns.
He also works with those facing career challenges, motivation and self-esteem struggles, and issues connected to aging and caregiving. He has experience addressing post-traumatic stress, phobias, and other trauma-related difficulties.
His background includes work with military service members and related issues arising from that experience. He adapts conversations and treatment plans to fit each person’s needs and goals.
That approach means sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals rather than vague techniques. Dr.
Skinner emphasizes honest discussion about the risks and potential outcomes of therapy. He notes there are no guarantees and that therapy is one of several options people may consider.
He encourages clients to weigh alternatives such as support groups, workshops, or medical and psychiatric care when appropriate. People who choose to work with him can expect a collaborative process that aims to build coping skills, improve relationships, and increase confidence.
He frames the first step as an act of courage and offers support and guidance as clients pursue change.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques use focused conversation and practical skills to help with symptoms and daily life. Cognitive approaches look at patterns of thinking and teach ways to change unhelpful thoughts, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Trauma-focused methods help people safely process distressing memories and learn coping strategies for post-traumatic stress and abuse-related symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your history, goals, and preferences, and then suggest methods that match your needs. That process is collaborative and may change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion when visual cues matter, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility and help people access care from different places and routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English