About Christine
Christine Solum is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 25 years of practice in Minnesota. She offers calm, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. Her approach is warm and interactive, aimed at helping people make steady changes in everyday life.
Christine uses methods that focus on the person's goals and thinking patterns. She listens closely, then helps people try new ways of handling difficult feelings and situations.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person's needs. Her experience includes supporting people through grief, compassion fatigue, anger, and the emotional effects of life changes. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, intimacy issues, postpartum depression, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors.
Christine draws on a broad background to fit the work to each person she sees. People who want practical tools and clearer thinking will find concrete strategies in her sessions. She balances skill-building with time to process painful memories or stress.
That combination helps when anxiety or trauma make daily life hard. Christine encourages steps that feel manageable. She helps create short-term goals and checks progress along the way.
The focus is on what will improve functioning and restore a sense of control.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust and when someone needs a space to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christine will work together with the person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean using client-centered listening at first and adding CBT tools as needed. The plan can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversation and skill practice, while phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, tracking progress, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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