About Christy
Christy McWaters, LPC, helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety find steadier footing. She works with those dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and relationship struggles. Christy aims to meet each client with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She encourages people to take the first step toward support and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage. Christy adapts the conversation and plan to what each person needs most.
Background and approach
She draws on a decade of professional experience as a licensed professional counselor in Georgia. Sessions focus on practical skills for coping with life changes, managing intense emotions, and reducing harmful patterns like substance misuse or codependent behavior. Her work often addresses issues tied to attachment, abandonment, and communication problems.
She also supports people facing bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, grief, parenting strain, and first responder stress. The approach is straightforward - talking through problems, identifying small changes, and practicing new ways to respond. Christy uses short- and longer-term strategies depending on goals.
She helps clients build self-esteem, work through dissociation or trauma responses, and set limits on control or dependency patterns. Therapy aims to create clearer choices rather than quick fixes. Sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Christy works with people in Georgia and runs sessions in English. She offers a collaborative space where people can name what matters and try out different coping tools.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Christy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and emotional regulation. One common approach focuses on building concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breath work, grounding exercises, and step-by-step plans to reduce overwhelm. Another approach addresses trauma and addiction by helping people understand triggers, notice patterns, and practice alternative responses that reduce harm and increase safety.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Together they prioritize what matters now and set manageable steps toward those goals.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection is useful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or video isn't needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These formats offer flexibility so people can keep up with care alongside work, family, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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