About Christine
Christine Heikkenen-Black is a Colorado licensed professional counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship and family concerns, addictions, trauma, and life changes. Her approach is practical and person-centered.
She listens closely and helps people take small, manageable steps forward. She blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs. Christine uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them.
Background and approach
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety and panic. Sessions emphasize clear goals and real-world skills. Christine works on communication, problem solving, and coping tools for grief, divorce, money stress, chronic illness, and parenting strains.
She also addresses attachment wounds and post-traumatic stress with steady, structured support. Her style is warm and straightforward. She aims to make the first steps less overwhelming by breaking work into short, doable tasks.
Clients can expect a collaborative plan that evolves as progress is made. Christine tailors conversation and treatment to each person’s situation. She values respect, sensitivity, and patience while helping people build stronger relationships and more reliable ways to manage anxiety and life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when anxiety or uncomfortable feelings are present. It helps people move toward what matters instead of getting stuck on unwanted thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce panic, social anxiety, and stress by changing thinking patterns and routines.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different tools and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when scheduling around work or family is needed. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick skill practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to access consistent support and fit sessions into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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