About Chris
Chris Goetz helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, trauma, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and identity. She also supports concerns like eating issues, bipolar mood patterns, anger, parenting stress, and LGBTQ-related challenges. Chris is an LPC and brings 16 years of clinical experience in Texas.
She uses clear, direct conversation and practical tools in sessions. Her style centers on listening first and then working together to find what helps.
How Chris works
She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors in everyday life. Chris also uses attachment-based work to understand how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns.
Dialectical behavior skills are offered for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Motivational interviewing helps people who feel stuck find reasons and steps to change. She has long experience with complex trauma, emotional abuse, substance concerns, dissociation, and codependency.
That background informs how she plans sessions and times interventions so people feel steadier as they go. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and stronger coping skills. Chris aims to help people identify roots of pain, challenge old stories, and move toward healthier patterns.
She meets each person where they are and adjusts the approach as progress is made.
Chris lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Chris works with
The areas below are the ones Chris selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Chris often blends attachment-based work with client-centered conversation and cognitive behavioral tools. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities so sessions feel collaborative and paced to individual needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches clear steps to notice thoughts, test them, and try different actions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation guides the choice of methods and gets adjusted as progress is made so treatment fits the person's changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or communicate when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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