About Crista
Crista Lonergan is a licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. They creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Crista works in English and Spanish and practices from Ohio as an LPCC.
Crista focuses on practical skills and steady support. Sessions often include tools to reduce worry, strategies for coping with life changes, and ways to strengthen self esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
Clients bring concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges with relationships or intimacy. Family of origin issues, communication problems, and adoption or foster care concerns are also part of the work Crista does. They support people navigating gender dysphoria, LGBT questions, immigration stress, and multicultural issues.
Crista additionally addresses eating concerns, anger, ADHD, and mood disorders. Therapy blends clear, hands-on techniques with listening and collaborative planning. Crista uses approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and attachment-based ideas to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
The goal is to build practical habits that fit daily life. Sessions can be scheduled in different formats to suit individual needs. Crista helps clients set goals, practice skills between meetings, and check progress over time.
They aim to make the process straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
How specific approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people focus on values and small actions that move their lives in a meaningful direction. It teaches practical exercises to reduce avoidance and create useful habits, which can be practiced between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems like anxiety going and offers step-by-step techniques to change them. These techniques translate well to video or phone work where homework and skill practice are reviewed together. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating; conversations and reflections about relationship patterns work well in a talk-based online format.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Crista will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily life to decide which methods to try first. This is a collaborative decision and can shift over time as goals change or progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and real-time practice of skills. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or help when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Together these options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice new habits between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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