About Christopher
Christopher Dockins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and depression. Christopher views each person as the expert on their own story and builds on existing strengths to support change.
He emphasizes practical steps and steady support. Sessions aim to make problems easier to talk about and clearer to act on.
Background and approach
Christopher offers straightforward strategies people can try between meetings to build momentum and confidence. His work often looks at how attachment and past losses shape current feelings and behavior. He uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to identify thoughts that keep stress and anxiety alive.
Emotion-focused methods are used when emotions need to be named and understood more deeply. Mindfulness and solution-focused tactics help people find calm and small, achievable shifts. Christopher keeps the pace tailored to each person's needs and comfort level.
He encourages parents and those dealing with relationship strain to focus on concrete communication and problem-solving skills. People who want a collaborative therapist will find his style direct but empathetic. He supports clients who want clearer direction and practical steps toward a more satisfying life.
Christopher helps people take the next small step forward and notice real change over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can be used to identify attachment needs and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood active. In remote sessions this often means learning simple skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people name and process strong feelings so relationships and self-understanding can shift; it is useful when emotions feel overwhelming or unclear.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose methods and adjust them over time so the sessions remain relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to share quick updates, practice new skills between sessions, or check in on difficult moments. These options help therapy fit into work, parenting, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on usable tools and steady progress.
Questions people ask
What concerns does he address?
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
How much experience does he have?
What credentials and region are listed?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Which session formats are available?
How is cost handled?
What are the first steps to begin?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.