About Phillip
Phillip Hawkins is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and issues related to LGBTQ concerns. He also helps people cope with parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy problems, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction-related behaviors. Phillip writes in plain language and aims to be direct and respectful in sessions.
Phillip works from a client-centered stance. He starts by listening to what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on the concerns you bring and the goals you want to reach rather than following a fixed script. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that contribute to anxiety and low mood. He also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.
In couples or relationship work he uses Imago relationship ideas to improve communication and repair connection. He pays attention to how past experiences shape current trust and attachment patterns, including work with people recovering from church trauma or highly controlled religious backgrounds. Phillip tailors pacing and techniques to each person.
He aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult topics and practice new ways of coping. He works from Texas and conducts sessions in English.
Approach-driven online therapy tailored to your needs
Phillip integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior ideas to address anxiety and stress. Client-Centered Therapy means he begins by listening closely to your concerns and shaping sessions around your goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood in place, and provides practical exercises to change them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes teaching clear skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Phillip will talk with you about your priorities and try different ideas to see what fits best. He adapts methods over time based on what helps you make steady progress toward clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better day-to-day functioning.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still working on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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