About Christine
Christine Badour is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship strain. Her manner is warm and engaged, and she aims to create a supportive atmosphere where clients feel heard and respected.
Christine uses a client-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life. She blends common-sense skills with therapeutic tools to help people manage symptoms and make changes that fit their daily routines.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Her methods draw from cognitive behavioral ideas to help reframe unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also uses attachment-based perspectives to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Christine incorporates mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior approaches when the moment calls for grounding or emotion regulation. People turn to her for a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, bipolar and mood issues, ADHD, sleep problems, grief, and substance misuse. She also helps with communication problems, intimacy-related issues, caregiving stress, and career transitions.
Christine focuses on clear, practical steps alongside deeper relational work. Her style mixes compassion with direct support. She tends to offer feedback, teach skills, and coach clients through setbacks.
The goal is steady progress - small changes that add up to safer routines, better coping, and clearer decisions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and reactions, helping people understand why they respond the way they do in close relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to change mood and behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) contributes skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which is useful for stress, anger, and impulse control.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they try techniques, adjust strategies, and pick the mix that fits the client's rhythm and preferences.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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