Christopher Simms
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christopher
Christopher Simms is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of hands-on experience. He practices from Texas and works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBT-related issues, and more. He approaches each person with respect and plainspoken care.
He aims to tailor conversations and plans to what each client actually needs. He combines practical therapy methods that help people manage symptoms and make changes. Christopher uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take action.
Background and approach
He also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to create a calm, nonjudgmental space. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that people can try between meetings. He helps clients develop skills for coping with crises, grief, parenting challenges, or struggles with substance use.
Christopher pays attention to how stress shows up in daily life and teaches tools suited to real routines. When trauma or attachment concerns arise he works to build safety and pacing into the work. For intimacy, body image, or kink-related questions he offers direct, respectful conversation and practical problem solving.
He aims to empower people to make thoughtful changes instead of quick fixes. Christopher adapts therapy style to the person in front of him. He listens first, then suggests approaches that fit that person’s goals.
That collaborative stance is meant to help people feel understood while they try new ways of coping and relating.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed steps in that direction. It is useful for worry, low motivation, and life transitions because it pairs values with action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It is often helpful for anxiety, mood problems, and stressful thinking patterns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Christopher will listen to what you want to change and suggest methods that fit your goals and preferences. Over the first few sessions you can try techniques and adjust the plan together so the work matches your pace and needs.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let you talk face-to-face from home, phone sessions are useful when video is not convenient, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options increase flexibility and can help people stay consistent with the work while juggling family, school, or work obligations.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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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
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