About Christina
Christina Balboni is a California licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with eight years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, navigate grief and loss, and work through low self-esteem and depression. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She has long experience in the geriatric field and brings that perspective to conversations about aging, end-of-life care, and loss. Christina listens first and then tailors sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She focuses on small, realistic steps clients can try between appointments. Christina works with people facing life transitions and the emotional fallout that can follow. She addresses concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, chronic illness or pain, and codependency.
Conversations can include building coping skills, improving communication, and boosting motivation or confidence. Her style is respectful, sensitive, and compassionate. Christina aims to create a straightforward plan that fits the client’s schedule and goals.
She encourages people to be active partners in their progress and to try strategies that are useful in everyday life. For those beginning therapy, she acknowledges that the first step can feel hard and affirms that starting is an important move toward feeling better. Christina works in English and provides sessions to people located in California.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the concern at hand. One common approach focuses on building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, activity scheduling, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools help reduce distress and make daily routines more manageable.Another area emphasizes grieving and adjustment work. This involves safe conversations about loss, tracking how grief changes over time, and identifying small actions that restore a sense of meaning and connection. For issues like low motivation and self-esteem, Christina works on goal-setting and breaking tasks into doable steps to rebuild confidence.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are treated as partners in shaping the work.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging work for quick check-ins or when a shorter contact fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping treatment consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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