About Christina
Christina Rush is a licensed psychologist practicing in North Carolina with 17 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to manage.
She focuses on practical support for fertility concerns, pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum depression, and other women's health issues. She also works with people coping with adoption and foster care questions, body image and eating-related struggles, and family of origin concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear steps people can try between meetings. Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide recovery from trauma and to reduce overwhelming anxiety. She offers a calm, steady presence while helping people learn skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Her approach pays attention to real-life demands like parenting roles, fatherhood issues, and separation or divorce matters. Christina supports people navigating fertility and reproductive loss, as well as those facing isolation, shame, or questions about life purpose.
She frames goals in everyday terms that make progress visible. People can expect practical tools, focused conversations, and care tailored to their situation. Christina aims to help people build resilience, find clearer direction, and regain a sense of control after difficult experiences.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom reduction and practical skill-building. One common approach is trauma-focused work that helps people process distressing events and reduce their impact on daily life; this often includes grounding and gradual exposure to reduce overwhelming reactions. Another common method centers on anxiety management, teaching breathing, worry-management, and behavioral strategies to lower stress and increase confidence in day-to-day situations.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Christina will work with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She emphasizes collaboration so clients can choose techniques that fit their needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and options for people who prefer typing. These formats help therapy fit into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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