About Christina
Christina Lacey is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, down-to-earth manner. Christina focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges.
She began therapy as a second career after raising a family and gaining more clarity about her goals. That life experience shaped how she listens and what she looks for in sessions.
Background and approach
Christina pays attention to how mental health affects the whole household and how patterns between people influence daily life. In sessions she takes a systemic view, looking at how relationships, roles, and routines shape mood and behavior. She often uses clear goals and regular progress checks so work stays practical and focused.
Narrative techniques help people reframe their stories, while solution-focused steps make immediate change possible. Christina also uses attachment-informed ideas to understand emotional bonds and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to build emotion regulation skills. Mindfulness exercises are introduced when they fit the client's needs to reduce stress and increase calm.
Her style is respectful and direct, with attention to strengths the person or household already has. Christina measures progress together and adjusts plans when needed. She aims to help people feel steadier, communicate more clearly, and move forward from stuck places.
How Christina’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at emotional bonds and how people feel safe or distant with one another. Online sessions can help identify patterns in closeness and teach new ways to respond that improve relationships and reduce anxiety.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In teletherapy Christina uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors that reduce worry and lift mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Skills like grounding, distress tolerance, and balanced decision making are easy to practice between sessions and can be reviewed over video, phone, chat, or text.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christina collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily life. She checks progress often and changes course when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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