About Christie
Christie Gait is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those facing relationship and life-change challenges. Christie works in a straightforward, supportive way and aims to help people take small, practical steps forward.
She listens for strengths in each person's story and builds on what is already working. Sessions typically include talking through current struggles, naming unhelpful patterns, and trying new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Christie centers the client’s goals and moves at a pace that feels manageable. Many people come for help with relationship strain, problems stemming from past abuse or trauma, low self-esteem, and motivation. She also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment struggles, control issues, and family of origin wounds.
Conversations often focus on clearer communication, setting boundaries, and reducing anxious thinking. Christie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to fit each person’s needs. She explains options in plain language and practices interventions that can be used between sessions.
The approach is practical and focused on real-life changes rather than abstract theory. People who prefer a direct but compassionate therapist may find a good fit. Christie encourages small experiments outside sessions and checks progress together.
Her goal is to help people feel more capable, connected, and able to handle life’s changes.
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Christie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person’s needs. One common approach focuses on identifying anxious thoughts and testing them with simple behavioral experiments to reduce worry and build confidence. This method helps people who get stuck in cycles of rumination or avoidance.Another approach emphasizes skill-building for relationships and communication. Sessions often include practicing clearer ways to ask for needs, set boundaries, and respond differently in tense moments. This can be useful for people facing trust, jealousy, or commitment concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily life to decide what to try first. She sees therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts methods based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction matters most. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter tools during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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