About Christine
Christine Shephard is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She brings seven years of experience to sessions and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming for people ready to try something new. She listens without judgment and helps clients name what is most pressing.
Sessions often begin by identifying small, doable goals that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Christine uses straightforward tools clients can practice between meetings. Her work addresses depression, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
Christine pays attention to how physical health and life circumstances affect mood and functioning. Therapy mixes practical skills with awareness-building. Techniques may include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, learning stress management strategies, and practicing present-moment awareness.
The goal is to increase choices people can make when emotions run high. Christine frequently helps with sleep problems, relationship strain, anger, and issues related to addiction or attention differences. She frames progress as steady steps rather than sudden fixes, and she encourages honest conversation about setbacks.
Her approach is collaborative and client-centered. Clients set priorities and Christine adapts methods from different approaches to fit each person’s needs and goals.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them drive behavior, then choose actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, burnout, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports self-directed change.Christine uses these approaches as tools and will work with each person to find the best fit. She treats the choice of methods as a collaborative process, checking in about what feels useful and adjusting techniques to match goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and structured exercises, phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short, frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping a steady connection with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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