About Christina
Christina Tyhurst is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who focuses on anxiety, stress, relationships, parenting, and related life challenges. She brings ten years of clinical experience and practical skills to sessions. Christina presents a calm, direct style that helps people talk through problems and try concrete ways to change their day-to-day lives.
She began her career working with children on the autism spectrum and later earned a Master of Social Work at the University of Southern California.
Background and approach
That early work emphasized behavior strategies, parent coaching, and teaching daily living skills. Those hands-on techniques still inform how she structures learning in therapy today. In recent years Christina has shifted to working mainly with adults.
She focuses on relationship and life skills such as boundaries, emotion identification, anger management, assertiveness, and communication. She also explores how attachment patterns and the stories people tell about themselves shape choices and relationships. Christina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Narrative Therapy in sessions.
Her approach is collaborative and practical - she helps people try strategies between meetings and checks what is working. Sessions tend to mix conversation, skill practice, and reflection. She offers therapy through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Christina speaks English and practices in California as a CA LCSW, bringing a blend of clinical experience and real-world skills to help people manage anxiety and other life stresses.
How attachment, CBT, and narrative work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns influence current relationships and reactions. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple experiments and exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety and mood difficulties.
Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from problem stories and rewrite how their life events are understood. It can be useful when someone wants to change a long-standing self-view or make sense of difficult experiences.
Christina treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then suggest approaches to try. Sessions can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for longer sessions and visual cues, phone may suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can fit brief questions or check-ins between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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