About Christopher
Christopher Simms is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He practices in Texas and focuses on straightforward, respectful care. He aims to make the first step toward change feel achievable and supported.
Christopher listens first and adapts his approach to each person. He works with people dealing with addictions, mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, and problems with self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and the strain that comes from caregiving and career pressure. People come to him for help with trauma and abuse, LGBT-related issues, eating and body-image concerns, and challenges related to parenting and adoption or foster care.
He also supports those coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and complex conditions where multiple issues occur together. His day-to-day work draws on several practical therapy styles. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and act on them.
He brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools for spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions are intended to be collaborative and plainspoken. Christopher aims to offer tools you can actually use between meetings.
He focuses on clear goals, steady progress, and building skills that make daily life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic tools adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to change mood and behavior. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention exercises that reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat or text messaging can fit short updates, coaching-style support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English