About Chandra
Chandra Dockery is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addictions, grief, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and treats clients as the experts in their own lives.
Chandra values a respectful, down-to-earth approach. She helps people notice strengths they already have and build on them. Early sessions often focus on what feels most urgent and what small steps feel manageable.
Background and approach
Her work draws from several therapy styles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-centered methods prioritize the client's perspective and pace.
Psychodynamic ideas can be brought in when past patterns show up again. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented when that fits, or more reflective when people want to explore deeper issues. Chandra also uses solution-focused strategies to set clear, short-term goals and track progress.
She adapts the mix to each person's needs. People who reach out often want help with day-to-day coping, improving relationships, or managing attention and mood challenges. Chandra works with adults to address those concerns and to build practical plans for change.
She encourages small, steady steps and regular check-ins on how things are going.
How Chandra blends approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. It helps when someone needs space to tell their story and to be heard, and it makes room for each person's priorities and pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It is practical and skills-based, useful for anxiety, mood symptoms, sleep issues, and managing attention or addictive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to keep using as progress is tracked.
Online formats offer flexibility for regular work on goals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, coping reminders, or short weekly touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to stay consistent with follow-up and practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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