About Phillip
Phillip Hawkins is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He works with clients on LGBT matters, parenting struggles, grief, addiction, and trauma-related issues. Phillip uses a compassionate, nonjudgmental approach and focuses on each person’s immediate needs.
He practices client-centered care, so sessions begin with what the client wants to address. He listens first and tailors conversations and goals to each person.
Background and approach
That can mean focusing on coping skills, problem-solving, or exploring deeper patterns that keep coming up. Phillip also uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when those methods fit a client’s goals. Those approaches can help with emotional regulation, changing unhelpful thinking, and building better daily routines.
He brings experience with complex concerns such as compulsive sexual behaviors, recovery from controlling religious environments, and difficulties tied to abandonment or adoption and foster care. Phillip aims to meet people where they are and create straightforward plans for change. Sessions are offered from Texas and conducted in English.
He emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and collaboration so people feel heard and can take practical steps toward the life they want.
How his approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy means sessions begin with what matters most to the person. Online sessions let clients bring current concerns into the moment, and the therapist adjusts the conversation and goals accordingly. This approach helps when someone needs focused support for stress, anxiety, or life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to get better results. In online work CBT can be used to practice new skills between sessions and track progress on daily routines or mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotional regulation, tolerating distress, and improving communication. Online formats can support DBT practice by allowing short skill check-ins, homework review, and real-time coaching about coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Phillip will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. He checks in as things change and adjusts the focus over time so therapy stays useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions when video isn’t needed, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and reduce barriers like travel or time off work.
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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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