About Christopher
Christopher Massey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical steps people can take when life feels overwhelming. He offers calm, direct support for stress and anxiety and helps people find realistic ways to cope. He talks plainly and meets people where they are.
With five years of experience, Christopher has supported people facing depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and addictions. He has worked with those who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect and helps them rebuild a sense of safety and routine.
Background and approach
His style is warm and interactive. Sessions are collaborative - the person sets priorities and he helps shape achievable goals. He avoids labeling and focuses on strengths and small, steady changes.
Christopher uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and to develop clearer patterns of behavior. He draws on attachment-based ideas to improve relationship patterns and on mindfulness to reduce reactivity and moment-to-moment stress. In practical terms he teaches coping skills, grounding techniques, and problem-solving steps people can use between sessions.
He also works on sleep or eating routines, anger management, and planning for life changes when those are part of the problem. People who want straightforward support and skill building will find a collaborative approach. Christopher helps break big problems into smaller tasks and checks progress together as goals shift.
How therapy approaches work online
Christopher uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that make life harder. CBT is useful when anxiety, low mood, or sleeping and eating problems get in the way of daily life. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current connections, which can help with intimacy, trust, and conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose techniques and pace the work so it fits the person's needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, daily skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep consistent care and to fit sessions into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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