About Christina
Christina “Christie” Samulevich is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like depression, grief, addictions, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Her tone is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to help clients find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Christie focuses on real-life problems that leave people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She uses clear, action-oriented methods to help with coping during life changes, career uncertainty, or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also addresses trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, and intimacy-related issues in a way that centers the person’s goals. Her work draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person’s experience. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thought patterns and dialectical behavior techniques to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools are used to set achievable steps and identify strengths. Christie practices in Illinois and brings three years of clinical experience to her work. She supports people who are exploring identity and LGBT-related concerns, body image and codependency, and those navigating non-monogamous relationships.
She also offers guidance around family problems, communication issues, and end-of-life or hospice conversations. Sessions are offered in English and are available through several online formats. Christie encourages clients to take the first step toward support and to work collaboratively to set clear, manageable goals for therapy.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Client-centered work means sessions focus on the person’s experience and choices. The therapist listens closely and helps clients set goals that matter to them, which works well for stress, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online CBT often includes simple exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for calming intense emotions and tolerating distress. Online DBT-style coaching can include practicing grounding, breathing, and emotional regulation techniques between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That joint process helps tailor strategies for issues like trauma, relationship challenges, or career stress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and detailed skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, coaching between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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