About Chris
Chris Goetz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 16 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship issues, trauma, depression, grief, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and LGBT-related matters. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, family problems, and bipolar concerns.
Her early work included premarital and marriage counseling, and she continues to use that background when relationship issues come up. She blends somatic awareness with talk-focused methods to notice how the body and emotions connect.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to the person’s comfort level. Chris draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust and safety in sessions. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to teach coping skills.
Rather than one fixed method, she tailors steps to what each person needs in the moment. Her experience includes helping people with complex trauma, emotional abuse, co-occurring substance concerns, dissociation, mood disorders, and personality-related struggles. She has worked with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and with varied life stories.
Her practice emphasizes finding and addressing root patterns while also teaching concrete tools for daily life. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style. Chris aims to guide people toward clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more grounded bodily awareness.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on healing and practical change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-oriented work pays attention to how feelings show up in the body. In online sessions this means noticing breath, posture, tension, and bodily sensations while talking, and using gentle practices to increase present-moment awareness. This can help with trauma, anxiety, and stress-related symptoms.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how past bonds shape current trust and connection. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the person sets the pace and direction; the therapist listens, reflects, and helps clarify goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most in sessions and in daily life.
Online formats offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to connect from home or during a busy week and allow different ways to process material between real-time meetings. Many people find the range of formats helps maintain consistency and make therapy a practical part of life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English