About Christina
Christina Oxley is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues, parenting struggles, bipolar disorder, self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with life changes. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings.
Christina favors a collaborative style and treats the person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
She offers practical support while guiding people to identify what they want and how to get there. Christina describes her approach as holistic. She considers how the mind, body, relationships, and environment affect wellbeing and adapts her work to each person’s situation.
That means pulling from different evidence-based techniques to match a person’s needs. Sessions are meant to be straightforward and goal-focused. Christina helps people break larger problems into manageable steps and builds skills for coping with anxiety, mood shifts, addictive behaviors, and everyday stress.
She values clear communication and works to make sessions feel approachable and useful. Reaching out is framed as a first step toward better understanding and change, and Christina aims to be a steady support along the way.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Christina uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common approach she draws on focuses on teaching coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety and stress, such as breaking problems into small steps and practicing new habits. These techniques help with day-to-day worry, panic, and stress responses.She also incorporates interpersonal and relationship-focused work that looks at how communication patterns and emotional needs affect connections with others. This helps people address intimacy concerns, relational conflict, and social stress. Finally, she blends mood-management strategies that support people facing depression or bipolar symptoms by building routines and activity plans to stabilize mood.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Christina collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or needs change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are good for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or people who prefer writing. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or school commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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