About Christina
Christina Rydeen is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help clients move toward clearer goals. Christina aims to make the first step feel manageable and steady.
She creates a calm, open space where clients can name thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on what matters to each person - coping tools, emotional awareness, and daily habits that support change.
Background and approach
Christina encourages small, consistent moves rather than sudden overhauls. Her work draws on methods that emphasize values, thought patterns, and emotional connection. She helps people notice what gets in the way and then practice different ways of responding.
That approach can be useful for worries, mood challenges, and relationship strain. Christina holds licenses as a Licensed Professional Counselor and as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She has 14 years of experience working with a range of concerns including trauma, grief, eating issues, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and caregiver stress.
Her background includes support for communication problems, control issues, and life transitions. In sessions, Christina blends listening with clear, actionable techniques. She often works on skills for managing anxiety, improving self-talk, and repairing important relationships.
Her style is direct but warm, and she partners with clients to set realistic steps they can use between meetings.
Approaches Adapted for Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, asks people to name what matters to them and practice small actions that match those values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation by shifting attention toward meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and patterns that keep people stuck. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they can try an approach, adjust techniques, and blend methods if that better fits the client’s needs. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier. Video can support face-to-face style conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat allow for flexible, brief exchanges between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work days, caregiving routines, and other busy schedules.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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