About Christine
Christine Shim is a licensed clinical social worker with 10 years of experience in nonprofit and healthcare settings in New York. She greets people who are feeling anxious, stuck, or overwhelmed and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and practical. Christine writes in plain terms and focuses on helping people move forward one step at a time.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and uses conversations to surface what feels most pressing.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on immediate coping skills, clearer thinking, and small changes that reduce day-to-day stress. Christine commonly sees people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and major life changes. She also supports concerns around relationships, self-esteem, parenting, career strain, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice includes work on attachment, communication problems, and boundaries. Therapeutic tools come from client-centered methods and evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas. She also draws on emotion-focused work and motivational interviewing to help clients set and reach practical goals.
The aim is to build skills that translate into daily life. Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and priorities. Christine emphasizes respectful, strengths-based care and practical strategies that clients can try between meetings.
She encourages people to take the first step and see if the fit feels right.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding your experience and following your goals. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around what matters most to them, which can be especially useful when dealing with anxiety or life transitions.Cognitive behavioral techniques look at the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. These methods teach practical tools for managing worry and changing unhelpful thinking patterns, so people can try small experiments between sessions and track progress.
Dialectical behavior ideas add skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. These skills often feel concrete and can be practiced between meetings to reduce reactivity in daily life.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a team effort. Christine will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they’ll decide which methods to emphasize. The plan can shift over time as goals evolve and new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in during a busy day or use shorter touchpoints between full sessions. This range of formats aims to make consistent care easier to fit into life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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