About Mary
Mary "Christine" Lawson is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She speaks English and French and practices from Tennessee. Christine aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Clients work on concrete skills for stress management, coping, and improving sleep and daily routines.
Background and approach
When trauma, grief, or relationship strains come up, she helps people sort through feelings and build steps toward steadier days. Christine draws from approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside solution-focused and trauma-informed techniques. That mix means sessions can include goal setting, skills practice, and gentle processing of difficult memories.
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs and can be adjusted as goals change. With seven years of experience, Christine blends direct techniques with listening and respect. She helps people facing mood shifts, attention challenges, addictions, and caregiver stress to find clearer paths forward.
Parenting pressures, career changes, and intimacy issues are also common topics she addresses. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Christine works collaboratively to build a plan that fits a person’s life and priorities.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Christine commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. Sessions often involve setting clear goals, practicing new skills, and trying experiments between meetings.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. These skills help people manage intense feelings, reduce reactive behavior, and improve relationships over time.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. Christine collaborates with each person to choose which methods will match their needs and goals. Together they review progress and adjust techniques so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people practice skills face to face, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, French
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