About Christopher
Christopher Simms is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. He works in Texas and offers practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction, or depression. He keeps sessions respectful and straightforward.
Christopher listens first, then helps people set clear goals for change. He adapts conversations and plans to the individual needs of each person he meets. His work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and identity questions related to LGBT experience.
How Christopher works
He also assists people coping with career changes, caregiving stress, and challenges such as bipolar disorder or ADHD. Christopher uses tools from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness methods. That mix helps people notice patterns, try new behavior, and build better daily habits.
People who choose him typically want a practical, collaborative process. Sessions focus on real-life steps and skills that can be practiced between meetings. The aim is steady progress toward clearer values and a more manageable life.
Christopher lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Christopher works with
The areas below are the ones Christopher selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on skills and values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes what matters most to you and teaches practical steps to live by those values despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete techniques to change them and reduce symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christopher will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. The process is collaborative and aimed at identifying what actually helps in daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are good for short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to schedule consistent, goal-oriented work from wherever a person can focus.
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