About Christina
Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota with 11 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety along with stress, trauma, depression, and related concerns. Her style is patient and nonjudgmental, and she centers the conversation on each person's strengths and goals.
Crissy uses client-centered approaches alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness methods to help people manage symptoms and build practical skills. She emphasizes clear, doable steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded in everyday life - what feels hard now and what small changes might help. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, addiction, grief, parenting strains, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She has experience with Native American communities and the Ojibwe culture, and she brings cultural awareness into sessions when relevant.
Crissy also has spent time helping people work through issues like panic attacks, phobias, isolation, and compassion fatigue. Sessions can include emotion-focused techniques and existential reflections when people want to look at meaning and values. She supports people coping with life changes, career stress, and intimacy-related questions.
Practical strategies for sleep, anger, and impulsivity are also part of her toolkit. Christina offers care through a blend of talk-based work and skill practice. She invites people to name what matters, set realistic goals, and test small, measurable changes.
The aim is to reduce symptoms and increase day-to-day functioning in ways that fit each person's life.
How Crissy's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts by focusing on what matters most to the person. The therapist listens closely and helps shape goals based on the client's priorities, building on strengths and lived experience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical strategies for reducing anxiety and improving mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques together, and adjust the plan as needed. That means trying CBT exercises, practicing mindfulness, or using emotion-focused conversations depending on what the client finds most useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, written reflection, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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