- Years in practice
- 16
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Chris
Chris Goetz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She brings 16 years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to help people untangle difficult feelings and find clearer paths forward.
Chris uses practical talk, active listening, and structured techniques to address what feels most urgent for each person. Her background includes extensive work with trauma, emotional abuse, and substance-related concerns.
Background and approach
She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck, including attachment wounds and communication cycles. Chris also supports people grappling with grief, issues around identity including LGBT concerns, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. In sessions she blends several familiar approaches to match a person’s needs.
Expect a client-centered stance that prioritizes your goals, plus tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to improve relationships and emotional regulation strategies from dialectical behavior therapy. Chris aims for clear, respectful conversations and step-by-step skill building.
She tailors interventions so they fit daily life and parenting demands. Her style is direct but warm, focused on practical shifts you can try between sessions. People typically work with her to address communication problems, codependency, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues.
Sessions can cover both immediate problems and longer-term healing from past wounds.
What Chris works with
Everything Chris lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Chris helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Approaches Chris lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How proven approaches translate online
Chris integrates attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy in ways that fit remote sessions. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build more supported ways of relating. It can be useful for parenting concerns and for repairing communication problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into concrete parts and offers hands-on exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. That might mean combining thinking-focused CBT exercises with attachment ideas about relationships or practicing DBT skills for emotion regulation when needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let people read body language and practice conversations in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, and more flexible communication between longer sessions. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Chris
What concerns does Chris address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem problems, and parenting issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and practical. She combines listening with concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
What experience does she bring?
Chris has 16 years of experience working in counseling settings and with people dealing with trauma, mood concerns, substance issues, and complex relationship problems.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Chris offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How are costs handled?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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