About Doris
Doris Gardner-Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and grief. She supports people facing major life changes, career struggles, bipolar symptoms, anger, and self-esteem challenges. Doris aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical from the first session.
She keeps sessions straightforward and conversational. People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings and patterns.
Background and approach
The focus is on understanding what matters to each person and building steps that fit their daily life. Her work draws on therapies that teach skills and promote awareness. Sessions may include clear strategies for handling distressing thoughts and for improving communication.
She also uses approaches that look at attachment and emotional experience to help with intimacy and relationship wounds. Doris brings 25 years of experience to her practice and holds a Texas Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, TX LCSW 58672. That background informs her steady, practical approach to common and complex challenges.
Many clients find value in a mix of skill teaching and supportive listening. Sessions can address the immediate problem and the patterns underneath it. The aim is to help each person move toward greater balance and more workable daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches available online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them, which helps with mood, anxiety, and coping. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy-related issues and trust wounds.Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine approaches based on their goals, concerns, and personal preferences. The plan can change over time as needs shift and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick ways to stay connected between sessions or share things that feel hard to say aloud. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and real-world change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English