About Christa
Christa Martin is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She works with individuals facing depression, trauma, panic attacks, and struggles with self-esteem or grief. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps that ease day-to-day pressure.
Christa combines several approaches to match what each person needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness to build calm and grounding skills for moments of high anxiety.
Background and approach
She has seven years of experience and has worked with veterans and first responders. That background informs how she talks about work-related stress, trauma, and the pressures that come with those roles. She also addresses financial strain, career questions, parenting concerns, and relationship strain in individual sessions.
Sessions focus on clear goals and short-term strategies as well as deeper emotion work when needed. Christa aims to help people find tools they can use right away and to track progress over time. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where practical coping skills meet attention to personal values and beliefs.
Christa practices in Mississippi and holds an MS LPC and a Louisiana LPC. Conversations are conducted in English and are shaped to each person’s situation and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Christa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thought patterns that increase anxiety and builds concrete skills to change reactions and behaviors. EMDR is used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional hold by using guided attention and structured protocols.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, symptom patterns, and what feels most comfortable, then adapt techniques across sessions. Clients often try brief, practical strategies first and then expand into deeper work if needed, with ongoing check-ins about what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for more interactive skill practice and fuller conversation, while phone calls require less bandwidth and can be a simpler option. Live chat and text can work well for quick check-ins, coaching-style support, or when shorter messages fit into a busy day. These formats make it easier to get consistent support and to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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