About Christina
Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Wisconsin with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and tackles related concerns like depression, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. Christina draws on her background in crisis services, corrections, independent practice, and community settings to tailor care to each person.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a Master of Science in Education-Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin.
Background and approach
Christina uses practical techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns and handle life transitions. Her work often includes addressing issues around parenting, intimacy, body image, ADHD, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. Her in-session style is comforting and encouraging.
Christina uses Motivational Interviewing to help clients find reasons to change and applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotional regulation or co-occurring concerns are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness strategies are also part of her toolkit for reshaping thoughts and habits. Sessions aim to build assertiveness and clearer communication.
Christina helps clients set small, achievable goals and practices skills in session that can be used between meetings. Her approach balances support with practical exercises so people leave with tools they can use right away. People looking for flexible online options can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Christina works collaboratively to decide which format and techniques fit each person’s needs and daily life.
Approaches that guide online work and skill building
Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and goal oriented, and it works well for anxiety, low mood, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone is working through co-occurring concerns. Motivational Interviewing is used to help people find internal reasons to make changes and stay engaged in progress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Christina discusses goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands with each person so they can choose techniques that fit. She adapts exercises and conversations over time as needs shift, so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for full sessions and skills practice, phone can fit brief check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat and text are useful for quick updates and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, family, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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