About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and related struggles. She practices in Texas and brings direct, straightforward support that aims to get to the heart of what’s keeping someone stuck. Her style blends honesty with care so people know what to expect in a session.
She draws on years working in Veterans Affairs treating PTSD, depression, anxiety, and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
Earlier roles in nursing homes and community mental health centers added experience with crisis work and a wide range of life stages and health issues. Those settings shaped a practical approach to therapy. Christine focuses on trauma as a common root of many problems.
She uses tools that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build skills for managing overwhelming emotion. Sessions include hands-on strategies and clear feedback rather than vague reassurance. Her work includes helping with relationships, grief, parenting strain, addiction struggles, sleeping problems, mood challenges, and issues tied to caregiving and chronic illness.
She also addresses concerns such as anger, attachment and abandonment, communication problems, and recovery from domestic violence or other traumatic events. People who prefer direct input and concrete steps tend to do well with her approach. She works collaboratively to set goals and track progress, tailoring techniques to fit each person’s situation and pace.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and trauma work
Christine uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking and test new ways of behaving. CBT workouts often include short home experiments, thought records, and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also uses trauma-focused therapy to address the ways past events shape current reactions. That work focuses on understanding how trauma affects daily life and on learning specific skills to reduce distress and improve functioning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and how someone responds to different techniques, then adjusts methods over time. Clients can expect clear feedback and joint decision making about which tools to try next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching, while phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English
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