About Christina
Christina Teel-Gonzales is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, self-esteem struggles, career changes, and parenting challenges. Her tone is practical and supportive, aimed at people who want clearer steps and less overwhelm.
Christina uses straightforward conversation to help people spot habits that keep them stuck. She draws on client-centered listening to understand each person's priorities. Then she uses cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking and solution-focused techniques to build small, useful steps.
Background and approach
Her training includes a master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance from Texas State University and a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Texas. Christina has maintained independent practice work in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio and now sees people through online counseling formats. She also brings life experience from living abroad and raising a family.
That background informs how she helps people manage caregiver stress, grief, immigration concerns, and long-term health challenges like cancer or hospice care. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person. Christina helps clients set short-term goals and track progress in real life.
People who want clear tools for anxiety, help with relationship or family concerns, or coaching through career and life changes may find her approach useful.
How Christina's Approaches Work Online
Christina uses client-centered therapy to listen carefully and follow each person's priorities, helping them feel heard and understood while deciding goals together. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so anxiety and stress are easier to manage. Solution-focused therapy targets practical steps and small experiments clients can try right away to create momentum and measurable change.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Christina collaborates with each client to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they check progress and adjust techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, and chat or messaging is useful for frequent brief support and on-the-go planning. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic approaches Christina practices in session.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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