About Paul
Paul Dokey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, phobias, depression, grief, and relationship strain. He offers a calm, present-focused style that aims to make talking about hard things easier and more useful. Paul works with individuals to sort out day-to-day problems and stronger emotional reactions.
Paul brings 20 years of hands-on experience in counseling. He blends practical tools from cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness practices to spot unhelpful thinking and try new responses.
Background and approach
That mix is often used to reduce worry, manage strong moods, or handle the fallout from trauma and loss. He also pays attention to attachment patterns and how earlier relationships shape current struggles. This helps when intimacy, codependency, or abandonment worries come up.
Paul explains ideas plainly and helps people practice small changes between sessions. Paul has a background that includes a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and long experience in community mental health. His LCSW credential means he is a licensed clinical social worker in Montana.
People who choose him usually want straightforward strategies, time to reflect, and a therapist who listens without judgment. Sessions are aimed at building skills that fit everyday life and the particular challenges someone brings. If someone is juggling work, parenting, or big life changes, Paul focuses on steps that fit their routine.
He helps clients experiment with new behaviors and notice what changes over time.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that increase distress and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current partnerships and intimacy, and it supports learning different ways of connecting when old patterns cause hurt. Paul approaches choosing methods as a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try an approach for a few sessions and adjust as needed so the work fits the person’s life and priorities. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, skill practice between appointments, or ongoing written reflection. These options make it possible to fit therapy around work, caregiving, travel, or different energy levels.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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