About Christina
Christina Gower is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and mood concerns. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Her tone is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make therapy feel like a safe conversation rather than a lecture.
She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Christina also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take actions that matter to them. Sessions tend to be interactive and tailored to each person’s needs. Christina has eight years of experience in the mental health field and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
That background means she has experience supporting people through both short-term crises and ongoing struggles. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and mood disorders. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical skills - for example, ways to manage worry, improve sleep, or cope with stress and compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to how thoughts and behaviors affect day-to-day life and offers tools people can try between sessions. People who choose her can expect straightforward talk, gentle challenge, and collaborative planning. She emphasizes respect and compassion and builds treatment plans to fit each person rather than using a single method for everyone.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and mood work
Christina often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT tends to focus on small, practical experiments that can reduce worry, improve sleep, or ease low mood.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach attention skills and grounding practices. Mindfulness can help reduce rumination and improve the ability to tolerate uncomfortable feelings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses to help people clarify values and take actions that match what matters most to them.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will listen to concerns and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The goal is to find methods that fit a person's life and goals rather than to follow a fixed protocol.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be a good lower-bandwidth option, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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