About Christi
Christi Stephenson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life transitions. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on meeting each person where they are. Christi speaks plainly and offers steady support as people begin the work of change.
Christi has six years as a licensed clinician in North Carolina and more years of experience in social work before licensing.
Background and approach
She has worked with people affected by trauma and abuse and supports those coping with depression, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with relationship tension, parenting challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and separation after divorce. In sessions she aims to build on strengths and tailor conversations to each person’s needs.
Christi adapts her approach so people can practice new skills between appointments. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping people try practical strategies that fit their lives. Clients can expect focused, steady guidance on managing anxiety, social fears, and post-traumatic stress symptoms.
Christi also helps people explore career stress, self-esteem issues, and parenting strains in ways that connect to daily routines. Her work often centers on clear steps people can try right away. Christi encourages anyone who feels overwhelmed to take the next step.
She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and will work together with each person to set realistic goals and track progress.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on teaching clear skills people can use every day. One common approach emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and rethinking unhelpful thoughts; it helps with anxiety, social fears, and low mood by giving concrete coping tools. Another approach works through trauma-related reactions by helping people process difficult memories while grounding them in present-day safety; this can reduce the hold traumatic memories have on daily life.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as needed. That means approaches may be mixed and changed over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes between sessions, track progress, or handle shorter concerns without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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