About Doris
Doris Gardner-Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, and trauma. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, career shifts, and the challenge of coping with life changes. Doris uses straightforward, person-focused methods in sessions.
She listens and helps clients name problems and set small goals. Sessions aim to make daily life easier with tools that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
With 25 years of experience, Doris draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. She employs acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive work to change unhelpful thoughts, and skills-building methods for emotional regulation. Attachment-informed perspectives and client-centered care also guide how she relates to clients.
Many people come for help with addictions, relationship strain, family stress, or trauma and narcissistic abuse. Others seek support around body image, communication problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or concerns related to intimacy and kink. Doris works with these issues one person at a time, focusing on practical steps and steady progress.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted through a range of online formats. Doris encourages a collaborative process where people help shape the goals and pace of therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It often focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward meaningful actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and routines. These techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems.Doris combines these approaches with attachment-informed and client-centered ways of working. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to what the client prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and when seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for quick updates, skill practice, or when a written check-in fits a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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