About Christine
Christine Wagner is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward, practical support and focuses on helping people take small, useful steps toward feeling better. She has spent two decades working in clinical settings, including hospital care and outpatient behavioral health.
Since 2019 she has provided outpatient services and has offered telehealth counseling since March 2020. That mix of settings shaped a calm, steady approach to common life problems.
Background and approach
Her work is individualized. Sessions draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. Mindfulness practice is also part of her toolkit and she has experience teaching mindfulness as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction instructor.
Christine aims to meet people where they are and to introduce practical ideas people can use between sessions. She often helps with worry, relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, trauma and the fatigue that comes from caring for others. She also supports concerns related to chronic illness, gender dysphoria, sexuality, and young adult transitions.
Her style is collaborative and direct. She listens first, then offers skills, practices, or processing work based on each person’s goals. Christine also draws on her background as an adjunct professor when explaining techniques and guiding practice.
How Christine Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often focus on clarifying what matters, practicing small behavioral steps, and using brief exercises between sessions to build new habits.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. In an online format DBT skill coaching and role practice can be done via video or messaging to help with strong emotions and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and she will recommend ways of working together. That choice is collaborative and may shift as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep track of skills over time. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limits while keeping a consistent course of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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