About Christie
Christie Carol Spahr is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of professional experience. She helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. Her style is warm and direct, focused on helping people feel steadier in daily life.
Christie emphasizes getting to know who you are and building self-compassion. She encourages tolerance, trust, and confidence so people can better handle painful experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps to manage panic, persistent worry, and overwhelming sadness. Her work draws on humanistic, existential, and person-centered approaches. She also uses motivational and narrative methods along with spoken-word elements to help people reframe their stories.
The goal is a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly. Christie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Oregon and a Master of Arts in Psychology with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy. Before graduate school she worked in sports marketing and studied Indigenous cultures in Australia and the U.S.
Outside of therapy she is a lifelong runner and marathoner. That experience influences her outlook on persistence, self-honesty, and steady progress. She welcomes working with people who are ready to take a first step toward a more balanced life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Christie draws on humanistic and person-centered ways of working that focus on understanding who you are and what matters to you. These approaches center the clients own experience and help people connect with their values and strengths to face anxiety and life changes. She also uses narrative methods to help people reframe painful stories and see alternate paths forward, which can reduce shame and build clarity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christie treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clarify which methods fit your goals and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps you feel safer, more confident, and more able to manage stress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different rhythms of life. Video helps with full conversation and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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