About Christine
Christine “Chrissy” Bruso is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience. She brings a warm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. Chrissy centers her work on strengths and practical tools you can use between meetings.
She uses clear, honest conversation to help people find their most authentic selves. Sessions often include skill-building for boundaries, communication, and self-care.
Background and approach
Parents and caregivers may find help juggling demands and reducing overwhelm. Chrissy draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also uses solution-focused methods to set short-term goals and track progress.
The mix is aimed at quickly producing usable strategies for daily life. Her background includes roles supporting adoption and foster care, counseling individuals with autism-related challenges, and working in varied settings from legal offices to community services. That range informs a practical, down-to-earth approach when addressing workplace stress, caregiver fatigue, or relationship strain.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Virginia. Chrissy aims to partner with clients to set realistic goals and to teach tools for managing anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and parenting pressures. She emphasizes teamwork - you and she work together toward clearer choices and calmer days.
How client-centered and skills-based therapy works online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. The therapist offers empathy and support while helping clients identify their values and strengths, which can be useful for anxiety, self-esteem, and parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to distress. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new ways of responding, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, practical steps and clear goals to create noticeable change in a short time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and may use one or more methods based on what feels helpful. Clients and therapist check progress together and adjust tactics as needed to meet changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skills coaching, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and messaging or live chat can support check-ins, brief problem-solving, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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