About Phillip
Phillip Hawkins is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 20 years of psychotherapy experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction-related behaviors, and LGBT concerns. He also supports people facing parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues.
Phillip uses a client-centered style. He begins by listening to what matters most to the person in front of him. Sessions focus on the issues the client brings, rather than following a rigid script.
Background and approach
He adapts the pace and topics to match each person’s needs. He also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
For relationship concerns he may use Imago-informed ideas to improve communication and understanding. Phillip has worked with people dealing with complex patterns such as codependency, compulsive sexual behaviors, and recovery from highly controlling religious environments. He is experienced supporting those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and identity-related struggles.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Phillip aims to create a calm space for people to talk without judgment. He offers tailored strategies and an empathetic presence to help individuals move toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. Online sessions let the therapist follow your lead, ask questions, and shape goals around your immediate needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses structured conversations and practical exercises to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it works well in video or text formats where homework and skill practice can be shared and reviewed. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for regulating emotion, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, and those skills can be taught and practiced through calls or messaging.Finding the right approach is part of beginning therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit your goals and preferences. That process often starts with plain conversation about what feels most urgent and what methods feel manageable for you.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or continuing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills in day-to-day moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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