About Christian
Christian Specks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana with 14 years of practice. She focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety, and she brings practical problem-solving to sessions. Christian writes and teaches about social work and special education while continuing clinical work.
Her approach centers on listening first. She invites clients to describe what feels most urgent and then helps set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve learning new skills for handling strong emotions and changing unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Christian uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns that feed anxiety and depression. She combines that with client-centered methods so people feel heard and respected while trying new ways of coping.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas to help clients reframe difficult experiences and focus on practical next steps. That can be useful for relationship strain, parenting stress, or career changes.
Her background in social work and school systems informs how she supports people facing disability, education, or caregiver challenges. Christian aims to make therapy usable in day-to-day life. She helps people build small routines, try experiments between sessions, and track progress.
That makes work on anxiety, grief, addiction, or other concerns feel concrete and steady.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and supports them as they decide what changes to try. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which many people find useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christian will collaborate with each person to identify which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try approaches and adjust based on what actually helps, so clients play an active role in shaping therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging are useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help people access regular support without changing their daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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