About Christina
Christina Ashby is a licensed clinical social worker with twelve years of experience helping people through stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Christina centers each session on the person in front of her and respects spiritual beliefs as part of care when clients want that included.
Her approach emphasizes skills you can practice between sessions. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, manage strong emotions, and improve communication in important relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify strengths, set small goals, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. Christina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge patterns that keep problems going. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
For relationship concerns she blends Gottman and Imago work to improve connection and repair interactions. People often turn to her for help with grief, trauma, addictions, workplace stress, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports those facing first responder and veteran-related stresses, multicultural concerns, and questions about sexual assault and abuse.
Christina practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. She asks new clients to share basic background information at the start so sessions can focus quickly on goals and next steps. Her style is collaborative, direct, and encouraging as clients learn new ways to cope and grow.
Online approaches for anxiety and relationships
Christina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety and testing new, more helpful ways of thinking. It can help with panic, persistent worry, and patterns that affect mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and reducing impulsive responses; it is useful when stress makes emotions feel overwhelming.She also draws on Gottman and Imago relationship work when couples or relationship issues are part of the concern. Those approaches concentrate on practical communication skills, repairing recurring negative cycles, and rebuilding trust in everyday interactions. Selecting which approach to use is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with the client to decide what fits their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring to sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with licensed professionals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for tools and worksheets. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework discussion, and ongoing skill practice between sessions, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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