About Christina
Christina Bonniwell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LIMFT) based in Ohio with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and the emotional fallout from major life changes. Christy aims to make therapy feel like a real conversation rather than a lecture.
She brings warmth, directness, and a bit of creativity to sessions. Her background includes work in psychiatric inpatient units, crisis stabilization, and substance use treatment.
Background and approach
That hands-on experience has involved crisis assessments and supporting people during very difficult moments. Those years in high-intensity settings gave her practical skills for calming acute distress and planning next steps. Christina often combines a trauma-informed perspective with a client-centered stance.
She listens for each person’s unique rhythm and goals before deciding how to proceed. Her style is collaborative: she helps people try tools, notice what works, and adjust as needed. She has worked in county behavioral health clinics and skilled nursing facilities, which exposed her to many life stages and situations.
That variety taught her to tailor responses for people coping with abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and relationship communication problems. Sessions with Christy tend to be straightforward and grounded. She encourages practical coping strategies, emotion regulation, and steps people can take between meetings.
She also believes it’s important to build small things to look forward to, even during hard times.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Christina uses evidence-based techniques that are practical and focused on helping people manage symptoms and regain stability. A trauma-informed approach means she pays attention to how past harm affects current feelings and behaviors and helps people build skills for managing triggers and overwhelming emotions. A client-centered approach emphasizes listening to each person's story and tailoring tools and pacing to their goals and comfort level.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina works with clients to try methods, notice what helps, and adjust plans over time. She guides the decision-making and encourages clients to speak up about what feels useful, so treatment fits individual needs rather than following a fixed script.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you see facial cues and have a fuller conversation, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact and brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on stress, anxiety, trauma recovery, and life transitions even when in-person meetings aren’t possible.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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