About Christina
Christina Swanger is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio. She focuses on stress and anxiety, family tensions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and managing big life transitions. Christina aims to create a calm, practical space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and build steady coping skills.
Christina brings 11 years of professional experience to her practice. She listens for strengths in each person’s story and uses those strengths as a starting point for change.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she helps people set realistic steps and tries to keep tools simple and usable between appointments. Her work often addresses issues tied to relationships and past hurt, including abandonment, attachment concerns, blended-family dynamics, and family-of-origin struggles. She also helps with caregiver stress, fertility-related worries, body image, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Christina pays attention to how these patterns affect daily life and decision making. People who meet with her typically work on building confidence, reducing reactivity, and finding ways to manage impulsivity and control struggles. She supports practical problem solving for family problems and commitment or codependency concerns.
The aim is to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier emotions. Christina approaches each session with respect for the person’s experience and a focus on usable strategies. She encourages small, steady steps and offers support while people try new ways of coping.
Her goal is to help people feel more capable in their everyday life and relationships.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building coping skills and strengthening emotional awareness. One common approach emphasizes practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, teaching step-by-step tools to reduce overwhelmed feelings and improve daily functioning. Another approach focuses on exploring relationship patterns and attachment concerns so people can understand how past experiences shape current reactions and make different choices.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christina works with each person to see what fits their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She adjusts methods over time so the work stays useful and realistic for the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and have a conversation similar to in-person sessions. Phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, written reflections, and flexible contact between longer sessions. These options aim to make it simpler to get consistent support while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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