About Christine
Christine "Chris" Coleman-Sandwell is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She practices in Missouri and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and grief. Chris focuses on practical support and steady guidance for people wanting clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping.
Her work often centers on life transitions such as midlife shifts, workplace stress, and separation. She also supports people navigating blended family issues, caregiver strain, and challenges tied to sexuality and women's issues.
Background and approach
Sexuality and self-love are common topics in her sessions. Chris uses straightforward, client-centered methods to help people find their own answers. She combines motivational interviewing to clarify goals and solution-focused ideas to build short-term plans.
Conversations aim to create small, useful changes rather than complicated theory. In sessions she listens without judgment and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Practical tools for managing anxiety, sleeping problems, anger, and self-esteem are offered when helpful.
She also addresses addictions, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Clients work together with Chris to set realistic steps and measure progress. Therapy can include talk, goal-setting, and simple behavioral changes tailored to the person’s life.
Her approach is steady, patient, and geared toward real-life relief.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects understanding, and helps people find their own solutions to stress, anxiety, and relationship issues.Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what they want to change and strengthens their motivation to act. It is useful for tackling addictions, commitment or control issues, and other goals that need steady, practical steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions begin with clear goals and are adjusted over time based on what is or isn't helping.
Online formats offer flexible ways to keep therapy working around daily life. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit appointments into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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