About Christianna
Christianna Sullivan is a licensed clinician in Illinois with seven years of professional experience as a therapist. She holds LCSW and LCPC credentials and focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety. Christianna aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults alike.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her. Conversations are shaped by the client's needs and goals. She listens for what matters most and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Background and approach
Christianna uses client-centered methods to build trust and warmth in sessions. She brings mindfulness tools to help people notice their thoughts and regulate strong emotions. Solution-focused techniques help set clear goals and create small, doable steps toward change.
Her work covers many everyday struggles such as relationship strain, family tensions, parenting stress, workplace pressure, and grief. She also supports people dealing with trauma or abuse, compassion fatigue, and life transitions like divorce or midlife questions. Sessions are practical and grounded.
Expect straightforward conversation, shared problem-solving, and a focus on skills you can use between meetings. Christianna often blends approaches to match each person's pace and circumstances. If someone is unsure where to begin, she helps them pick small first tasks and measures progress in real terms.
The emphasis is on steady, achievable gains rather than quick fixes.
Practical approaches for online support
Christianna commonly blends client-centered work, mindfulness, and solution-focused methods in remote sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation is guided by each person's needs; the therapist listens and follows the client's concerns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxious reactivity and improve emotional awareness. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on concrete goals and small steps, helping people move toward clear changes without getting stuck on the past.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christianna will talk with a client about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels useful and manageable over time.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, coaching-style support, or when written reflection feels easier. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy family and work routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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