About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or life changes. Her approach aims to get clients moving again when motivation is low or feelings feel stuck.
She works with adults on a range of concerns including relationship strain, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and issues tied to trauma and abuse. Christine also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and challenges connected to family of origin or attachment.
Background and approach
She lists LGBT concerns among her focus areas. Christine uses a mix of conversation and skill building rather than only talk therapy. Sessions explore the strengths a person already has and add practical tools to manage symptoms and daily struggles.
She draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s lead and on cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Her background in emotionally-focused approaches guides work on relationships and attachment concerns, and she also uses EMDR when trauma memories are a clear focus.
Over her career she has developed an ability to combine several methods to fit what a person needs in the moment. Christine practices in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English. She offers a collaborative style that helps people set realistic goals and try small, manageable steps toward them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what each person needs. In practice this means sessions follow the client's concerns and priorities while the therapist offers reflection and encouragement to help people clarify choices and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. Online CBT sessions typically include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing those ideas, and trying small behavioral experiments to see what changes improve mood and reduce anxiety.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions tied to relationship and attachment concerns. Even online, EFT techniques guide conversations that help people move toward clearer emotional responses and stronger connections in their close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences to decide which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Chat and messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when people prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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