About Christine
Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with seven years of experience. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help people make steady, manageable changes. Her approach feels direct but warm, and she often gives small tasks to try between meetings so progress can be noticed.
Before clinical work she gained experience across ages and settings, from play-based activities to grief counseling.
Background and approach
Much of her recent work has been with people in the LGBTQIA+ community navigating identity, relationships, and life transitions. She also supports people with anxiety, depression, ADHD, neurodiversity, and issues around self-esteem. Christine is kink and BDSM lifestyle friendly and familiar with ethically non-monogamous relationships such as polyamory.
She also helps people who are shifting away from conservative religious backgrounds and need support processing cultural and belief changes. Her background includes work around adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and grief. In sessions she uses goal-oriented, client-centered methods and blends practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.
She encourages trying small experiments between sessions and treats missed homework as information rather than failure. Christine aims to push gently at the edge of comfort so clients can move forward without feeling overwhelmed. Outside of work she enjoys science fiction and fantasy, handmade art projects, board games, gardening attempts, and caring for her aquarium of guppies and ghost shrimp.
Those interests inform a relaxed, personable presence in the therapy room.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
She often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns and clarify personal values. CBT focuses on practical skills for managing thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and commitment therapy uses values-driven actions and mindfulness to help people move forward even when difficult feelings remain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then recommend techniques to try. Clients and the therapist decide together when to adjust methods based on what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to send quick updates, try brief check-ins, or work through exercises between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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