About Christina
Christina Mayhaus is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 16 years of experience. She works from Ohio and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. Christina helps clients who identify as LGBTQ navigate identity-related concerns and related life stressors.
Her approach is practical and flexible. She adapts methods to match each person's needs instead of using one fixed method for everyone.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to set clear goals and track small steps of progress over time. Christina has worked across age ranges, including young adults and adults, and brings long experience in community mental health settings. She draws on what has helped people in past work while adjusting to each new client’s situation.
In therapy she emphasizes open, respectful conversation. She addresses communication problems and family of origin issues that often affect relationships and self-worth. Topics such as guilt, shame, and self-love are discussed in simple, direct ways.
Clients can expect a focus on managing symptoms and building coping skills. Christina works with people on post-traumatic stress, life transitions, and the everyday pressures that feed anxiety. Sessions are intended to be straightforward and useful for day-to-day life.
Approaches that guide online care
Many effective therapies use practical, evidence-based techniques to reduce symptoms and teach new skills. One common approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood; it helps people learn coping tools and daily routines that lessen stress. Another approach emphasizes processing past hurts and trauma through structured methods that help reduce the intensity of painful memories and reactions; this can be useful for post-traumatic stress and abuse-related symptoms. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina works together with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals. This is a collaborative process that may involve trying different methods and adjusting based on what helps most. Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversational work, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, coping prompts, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to attend sessions from varied locations and to fit therapy into a daily routine.Questions people ask
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- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts, Texas
- Languages
- English
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