Phillip Hawkins , LCSW

Phillip Hawkins is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and issues related to sexual identity. He also supports people coping with relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting concerns, addiction-related behaviors, and grief. He practices in Texas and works in English.

Phillip uses a client-centered style that begins by listening to each person's story. He asks about immediate concerns and goals, then shapes the sessions around what matters most to the client. Conversations are direct and practical, with room to talk about feelings and day-to-day challenges.

He draws on several therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and Imago ideas for improving connection in relationships. He adapts methods to the situation rather than following one fixed system. This helps when people face complicated issues like trauma, church-related harm, or sexual compulsive behaviors.

Sessions aim to build clearer communication, healthier coping habits, and steadier emotional responses. Phillip also addresses topics such as body image, codependency, abandonment, chronic illness stress, and intimacy-related struggles. He emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical steps clients can try between meetings.

People who want a steady, listening approach with concrete tools may find his style helpful. He guides conversations toward actionable change while honoring an individual’s pace and values.

How therapeutic approaches translate online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. Online sessions with this approach begin with open conversation about immediate concerns and goals, and the therapist shapes each session around those priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In video or phone sessions a therapist can teach thought records, behavioral experiments, and practical skills that clients can try between meetings.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills. Online DBT work often includes short skill coaching through live chat or text-based messaging as well as longer video sessions for practice and review.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort. That plan can be adjusted over time based on progress and preference.

Online therapy offers flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing skill support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep practicing skills between sessions.