Anneka Dockery, LMFT

Anneka Dockery is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Delaware who brings six years of outpatient mental health experience to her clinical work. She has supported a broad range of clients, including youth in residential treatment, children in foster care, veterans and military families through internship work, and people coping with depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, attachment concerns, and relationship challenges. Her practice includes couples counseling - from communication struggles to mediation during divorce - as well as work with parenting and blended family issues, career stress, oppositional behaviors, and recovery from emotional or physical abuse.

As a military spouse, she draws on personal insight into the stresses and unique dynamics that can arise in military life, which informs her empathetic approach with service members and their families. Her counseling style is warm, down to earth, and inviting; she asks thoughtful questions to understand each person’s experience and treats clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She avoids stigmatizing labels and acknowledges that everyone faces life stressors despite training or credentials.

Anneka follows a collaborative model, using assessment conversations to determine which therapeutic methods may fit best, because no single model works for everyone. She is committed to doing what is clinically necessary to help a client, including making referrals when appropriate, and she encourages clients who are ready to take steps toward improved emotional health and well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then take steps that align with their personal values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and navigating life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships formed early in life and explores how those patterns affect present connections - a helpful approach for intimacy, abandonment, and family issues. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist provides empathy and genuine presence to help clients find their own solutions and build self-esteem.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Anneka works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to tailor methods that fit the individual, recognizing that an approach may evolve as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: sessions can be scheduled as video calls, by phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy lives, manage responsibilities, and maintain continuity of support. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches effectively across remote formats to help clients move forward from wherever they are.