About Christina
Christina "Chrissy" Senior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with ten years of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood challenges. Chrissy draws on a straightforward, supportive style so clients can feel heard and make steady progress.
Her background includes work in hospitals, residential treatment programs, nonprofit settings, and crisis centers. That variety shaped a calm, practical approach to common problems like overwhelming anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
She has also worked as a sexual assault and domestic violence advocate and as a case manager in the foster care system. In clinical work Chrissy uses client-centered and solution-focused methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. She emphasizes collaboration and helps people set concrete goals for change.
Sessions aim to be practical and skills-based while still attending to emotions and personal history. Chrissy has experience conducting thorough mental health assessments for adults and adolescents. That work includes evaluating self-harm, severe anxiety, trauma responses, and mood dysregulation.
She brings that assessment experience into regular sessions to guide treatment choices and pacing. Her goal is to make therapy feel approachable and useful. She wants people to leave sessions with clear next steps, tools to manage difficult moments, and a sense of forward movement.
How approach and online care work together
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. The therapist creates space for people to say what matters most and then helps them move toward their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers hand-on strategies for managing intense emotions and improving coping skills when stress or self-harm risk is present.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and preferences together and suggest ways to blend these methods. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which techniques to try and when to adjust the plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel. Phone sessions or live chat can fit into a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Text-based messaging is useful for quick check-ins, sharing short coping plans, or getting reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to attend regularly and to practice skills in day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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