About Christine
Christine Abrams is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She offers straightforward, practical support aimed at small, manageable changes. Her approach is collaborative and respectful of each person’s pace.
With 35 years of experience in community mental health centers, agencies, and college settings, Christine brings a broad background to sessions. She has also managed therapy programs and supervised counselors working toward licensure.
Background and approach
That experience informs a calm, steady style in conversation and planning. Sessions are active and individualized. Christine listens first, then helps clients set priorities and build a plan.
She draws on client-centered methods and family systems thinking to understand people in the context of their relationships and environments. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address thoughts, behaviors, and stress responses. Practical tools such as reading suggestions, apps, art, or journaling may be offered when they fit a person’s interests and goals.
These tools are chosen to match the unique situation of each client. Christine often looks for strengths in a person’s life that can be used to meet current challenges. She works with common concerns like trauma and abuse, grief, anger, addiction, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Her style emphasizes options, skill building, and steady progress so clients can move forward with more confidence.
How Christine Uses Talk, Thought Work, and Mindfulness Online
Christine often combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral work to help people understand and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns that increase anxiety or depression and trying practical experiments to test alternatives.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. Mindfulness can be useful for people coping with ongoing worry, chronic pain, or anger by helping them notice reactions before they escalate.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Christine works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, preferences, and daily routine. Together they set priorities, try options, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be helpful for short check-ins or tracking progress between sessions. These different formats give flexibility for working on anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting issues, and life transitions without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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