Angela Dockins, LPC

Angela Dockins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions, difficult thoughts, and the behaviors that follow. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on practical steps toward the changes people want to make in their lives.

She commonly works with people who have experienced trauma, including abandonment, neglect, and various forms of abuse. She also addresses anxiety, depression, addiction, self-harm behaviors, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Sessions aim to reduce day-to-day distress and improve coping skills.

Angela uses several evidence-based approaches to guide her work. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to pinpoint unhelpful thinking patterns and from dialectical behavior therapy to build emotion regulation skills. She also incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma processing when appropriate.

Her style is empathetic, compassionate, and focused on clear, achievable goals. Together with each person she breaks down larger problems into small, realistic steps. The work is collaborative - clients decide what matters most, and she helps plan the path forward.

To begin, she discusses the most troubling issues and creates a step-by-step plan that fits each person’s life. Sessions emphasize self-kindness and gradual progress rather than quick fixes. The aim is to help people see themselves more kindly while moving toward meaningful change.

Using ACT, CBT, and EMDR in online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when emotions are hard. It supports work on anxiety, depression, and motivation by focusing on actions that align with personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions to find practical changes in thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional hold when appropriate.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try approaches, adjust as needed, and choose techniques that feel most helpful for the specific concerns presented.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. Licensed professionals can also adapt exercises, homework, and skill practice for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.