About Christine
Christine Whittaker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of clinical experience based in Florida. She focuses on helping people move past anxiety and stress and reclaim confidence in daily life. Her approach aims to connect thoughts and actions so clients can find practical ways to cope and grow.
She keeps sessions straightforward and solution-oriented. Christine uses clear communication techniques and helps clients name the patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
She emphasizes empathy and a non-judgmental tone so people feel heard while they try new ways of responding to old problems. Christine offers support for relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, and identity questions related to LGBT matters. She also assists people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, codependency, and career transitions.
The focus is on individual coping skills and healthier patterns in relationships. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and client-centered ideas. Christine adapts methods to each person’s goals rather than following a single rigid plan.
Sessions aim to be practical, with tools people can use between meetings. She offers online and in-person formats and accepts international clients. Christine encourages people to look for modest, steady changes and to expect therapy to be a collaborative effort toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions to build flexible responses rather than trying to eliminate every difficult feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thought and behavior patterns that maintain distress. It offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, address body image concerns, and change unhelpful habits between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional patterns in relationships and helps partners or individuals recognize and shift how they respond to each other. It can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and rebuilding connection after conflict.
Christine approaches finding the right method as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and choose or blend approaches that fit those needs. That collaborative planning helps set clear, achievable steps for therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can handle shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping progress focused on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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