About Anneka
Anneka Dockery is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing anxiety and related stresses. She brings six years of outpatient and residential experience to sessions. Her style is warm and direct and aims to make people feel heard.
Anneka helps clients talk through relationship and life changes in straightforward ways. She has worked in outpatient mental health and residential treatment for at-risk youth, and has provided counseling within foster care settings.
Background and approach
That background informs her work with attachment issues, grief, trauma, and mood challenges. She also has experience addressing relationship struggles such as infidelity, commitment concerns, and divorce transitions. In sessions Anneka asks clear questions to better understand each person’s needs.
She follows a client-centered process and discusses therapy options together during assessment. This lets her match approaches to what actually helps a person, rather than forcing a single method. Anneka uses several practical approaches, including cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-based strategies, plus techniques focused on emotional connection and interpersonal patterns.
She will recommend skills for managing anxiety, improving communication, and coping with life changes. Anneka works from Delaware and conducts sessions in English. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
If a different course of care is needed, she will help find the right referral.
Therapy approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings and taking steps that match personal values. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching practical ways to move forward despite anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, mood shifts, and coping with life stressors. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses; it can help with intimacy, abandonment, and family of origin concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will review concerns, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps. Sessions begin with an assessment and ongoing conversations about goals and what feels useful in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter updates, skill practice, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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