About Anneka
Anneka Dockery uses a practical, relationship-focused approach to help people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, or difficulty in their close relationships. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Anneka keeps sessions straightforward and down-to-earth. She asks questions to understand what’s going on and treats people with respect and compassion.
She has six years of experience in outpatient mental health and has worked in residential treatment and foster care settings. That background means she has supported people through grief, trauma, attachment struggles, and mood challenges.
She has also helped those facing relationship problems, separation and divorce concerns, infidelity, and blended family stress. Anneka often collaborates with clients to pick approaches that fit their goals.
She values seeing how life circumstances shape problems and adjusts tools accordingly. She works with issues such as depression, bipolar mood concerns, anger, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, career strain, isolation, and questions of identity including LGBT matters. Communication difficulties, commitment worries, and forgiveness or guilt issues are other common topics she addresses.
In sessions Anneka aims to be warm and nonjudgmental. If a client needs a service beyond her scope, she will help find the right referral.
She encourages people to take the first step toward emotional well-being and to build practical skills for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, committed actions that match those values. It helps people manage difficult thoughts and feelings so they can move toward what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and reactions. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early connections influence current bonds, which can be useful for couples and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is a cooperative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and daily life. Sessions begin with an assessment and then adapt as goals change, so the plan can shift if something else seems more helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to get care. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the clinician's approaches in practical, goal-focused ways.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English