About Christine
Christine Ryan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with four decades of experience. She offers a calm, practical approach to the struggles that bring people into therapy, including anxiety, stress, grief, relationship pain, and life transitions. Christine blends traditional counseling with coaching ideas to help clients move forward in everyday life.
Christine earned a master's degree from Arizona State University and has worked in psychiatric hospital social work and community mental health settings.
Background and approach
She has practiced in Texas for many years and later expanded her work to telephone and online sessions. She also has experience with disaster response and supporting people facing catastrophic illness. Her style is down-to-earth and goal-oriented.
She helps clients break problems into three steps - understanding what is happening, seeing how it affects choices and feelings, and deciding what to try next. Many people come for short-term, solution-focused work that leads to clear next steps. Christine draws on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral ideas, and solution-focused methods to match the session to the client's needs.
She often pairs talk therapy with practical coaching tools to support decision making and life changes. The tone in sessions is collaborative and respectful. Clients who benefit most are those ready to name a problem and try specific changes.
Christine offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible scheduling. She works from Texas and carries the perspective of long experience into each conversation.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. It helps people feel heard and supported while they work through anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on goals and small changes that lead to faster progress, useful when someone wants concrete next steps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest one or a blend of methods. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the person move forward.
Online therapy makes this kind of work more flexible. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when schedules are tight. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share between sessions and get ongoing support. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while pursuing practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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