About Christine
Christine Piddington is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of professional experience. She practices remotely for clients across California and focuses on practical ways to cope with stress and anxiety. She draws on years of direct care work to help people manage grief, depression, and life changes.
Her background includes hospice social work, where she supported people through loss and bereavement. That experience shapes how she approaches grief and complicated mourning, offering steady support and clear steps forward.
Background and approach
She also spent time in the Peace Corps advocating for people affected by HIV/AIDS, which informs her advocacy for clients facing systemic barriers. Christine uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods to help people find what works. She leans on existential ideas to help people reflect on meaning and choice, and uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, practical changes.
Sessions are focused on what a person wants to change and how to get there. She has worked in varied settings, including hospitals and correctional environments, which broadened her view of challenges people face. That range helps when dealing with issues like addictions, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and workplace disability concerns.
Christine also has experience helping with relationship and communication problems. In remote sessions she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps people clarify goals, try tools between sessions, and adjust plans as needed.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christine uses Existential Therapy to help people examine what matters most to them, how they make meaning, and how choices can shape a life with more purpose. This approach is useful for people facing major life changes, grief, or doubts about direction.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy, which zeroes in on practical steps and small changes that produce noticeable results. That method works well for reducing anxiety, managing stress, improving daily routines, and tackling short-term problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with clients to match methods to each person's goals and preferences. Together they set clear targets, try techniques between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Christine is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging give options for brief check-ins and steady support between longer sessions. These formats add flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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