About Christina
Christina Steele-Lietz brings a gentle, person-focused approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in the field. Christina centers each conversation on what matters most to the person in front of her.
She listens without judgment and works alongside clients to find practical ways to feel better and move forward. Christina uses straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She helps people notice how thoughts and behaviors affect daily life, then tries small changes that make a real difference. Sessions focus on learning skills to cope, naming values, and building habits that match what people want from life. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Illinois and neighboring states.
Christina has supported people with identity questions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, and career stress. She also addresses complex topics such as chronic illness, caregiving burden, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. Therapy with Christina is collaborative.
She aims to be a clear guide and steady presence while clients try new coping strategies. People who are dealing with life transitions or persistent worry often find this practical, steady approach helpful. Sessions take different shapes depending on what a person needs.
Christina adapts tools from several approaches and focuses on what helps someone feel more in control and more like themselves over time.
How Christina’s approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps that match those values. It is useful for chronic worry, life changes, and situations where avoidance has become a habit. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. It is often used for stress, sleep problems, and routine worry. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional hold. It can be helpful for people with trauma and abuse histories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and comfort with different methods. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made in sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video sessions let people read facial cues and do deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work for quick updates, brief skill practice, or people who prefer typing. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy can happen around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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