About Christina
Christina Macnamara is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 29 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She explains things in plain language and focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions. She meets people where they are and works alongside them to get unstuck.
Christina uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s goals in view. She also draws on solution-focused strategies to build small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify patterns and try different actions that can reduce distress. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including grief, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship problems, and coping with life changes. She also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, ADHD, self-esteem, and health-related challenges.
Christina pays attention to how life events such as illness, caregiving, or family transitions affect daily functioning. Sessions are collaborative and goal-driven. Christina helps people name a clear aim, break it into steps, and test what works.
She balances practical skills with space to process strong feelings so progress feels real and sustainable. Christina practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is steady and straightforward, aimed at helping people find clearer direction and better ways to cope with the pressures in their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Christina commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to you, then taking actions that match those values. This approach can help with anxiety, grief, and life transitions by shifting the focus from controlling feelings to moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by testing new ways of thinking and acting.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The early sessions are a chance to see which methods feel useful and to set clear, achievable steps together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to in-person visits. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, and people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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