About Christina
Christina Cartagena is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and related struggles. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her tone is calm and straightforward, aimed at someone who needs clear help now.
Christina works with adults facing depression, panic, difficult family dynamics, and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, and the frustration that comes with parenting and caregiving.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on skills that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps clients identify patterns that fuel anxiety or isolation.
Together they pick small, realistic changes to try between sessions and track what helps. Christina draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based thinking to make sense of feelings and reactions. She also uses client-centered conversations and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to build emotion regulation and stronger relationships.
Christina holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in South Carolina. She has three years of clinical experience working with a range of mood and stress-related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through flexible online formats so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns shape current relationships and helps people understand why they react the way they do. It can be useful for anxiety rooted in closeness, trust, or feeling disconnected. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete exercises to reduce panic, worry, and low mood.The right approach is something to find together. Christina will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend methods that fit those needs. The plan can change over time based on what feels most useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into work, school, or caregiving schedules. Video is good for a full session with visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between calls. These options aim to make regular care easier to keep up with while focusing on practical skills for anxiety and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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