About Christa
Christa McCoy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 21 years of experience. She trained in social work through a joint program at the University of St. Thomas and St.
Catherine University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Christa’s background includes long-term clinical work in school settings where she provided individual and group support, crisis intervention, and family education and advocacy.
Background and approach
She follows a strengths-based, healing-centered approach that honors culture, spirituality, and social justice. Sessions focus on identifying immediate needs and practical next steps. Christa emphasizes clear, doable goals and collaborative planning so people can move forward at a manageable pace.
Christa helps people concerned about stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, addictions, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Additional areas she addresses include postpartum depression, ADHD, body image, social anxiety, and the impacts of prejudice and discrimination.
In the therapy room she aims to build a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through honestly. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, and mindfulness skills to reduce distress and increase coping. She also uses client-centered and existential perspectives to help people clarify values and meaning.
People who want a practical plan and steady emotional support often find her style helpful. Christa balances empathy with concrete strategies so progress can be tracked. She practices from Minnesota and communicates in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Christa commonly draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) when working remotely. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop safer ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, letting them guide the pace and topics. CBT teaches concrete skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christa will collaborate with each person to identify goals, test what helps, and adjust methods over time. That shared decision-making makes it easier to blend listening, meaning-focused work, and skill-building in ways that match a person’s needs and values.
Online sessions offer flexible options to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and guided skill practice. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is low or when sitting on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to get steady help while balancing work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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