About Christina
Christina Chykirda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Connecticut with ten years in the mental health field. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and those facing addictions, trauma, depression, or struggles with eating and self-esteem. Christina aims to create an accepting and straightforward space where people feel heard and respected.
She keeps therapy practical and interactive. Sessions often include education about symptoms, simple tools to try between meetings, and gentle challenges to break unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Christina uses short-term goals and homework to help people practice new skills in daily life. Christina has worked across inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings. That variety shaped a flexible style that adapts to different needs and life situations.
Her background also includes years in customer service, which contributes to a calm, down-to-earth manner. Her approach draws on client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas. She also uses mindfulness and existential perspectives to help people make meaning and handle strong emotions.
The focus is on what helps someone cope better now and build toward longer-term change. Christina encourages collaboration about treatment goals and methods. She explains things plainly, assigns manageable homework, and supports clients as they try new ways of responding to stress, relationship strain, grief, or life transitions.
How her therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person rather than a strict plan. It means the therapist listens closely, follows the client's pace, and helps people name what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns such as worry, avoidance, or negative self-talk. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without turning to harmful coping moves.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Christina will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on the client's needs and goals. The plan can change over time as new challenges arise or as certain tools prove more useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or when a screen-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make regular contact more manageable.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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