About Christina
Christina Cartagena is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She is direct and compassionate, and she focuses on building skills people can use between sessions. Christina works with adults who feel stuck by relationship problems, grief, trauma, or changing life demands, including ADHD-related struggles.
Her sessions are collaborative and practical. She listens first, then helps clients identify small steps that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Christina draws on proven approaches to teach coping skills for panic, intense emotions, sleep trouble, and day-to-day setbacks. Christina earned her LPC credential and has three years of clinical experience in South Carolina. That experience includes supporting people dealing with family conflict, caregiver stress, impulse control, body image concerns, and feelings of isolation.
She uses a mix of methods to match what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Clients can expect a calm, straightforward style. Conversations focus on what’s happening now and what changes will help most.
Christina often blends skill-building with understanding how past attachment experiences affect current relationships. Beyond skills training, she helps people work through grief, forgiveness, guilt, and the impact of trauma or abuse. Sessions cover practical problem solving for money worries, work stress, and parenting strain alongside emotional processing and rebuilding connection.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions Christina helps clients notice how connection or disconnection shows up in their relationships and practices new ways of relating that reduce conflict and loneliness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Christina uses CBT to teach clear strategies for managing anxiety, panic, mood shifts, and ADHD-related challenges by changing unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk through options, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what the client finds helpful. The goal is to match methods to your goals, whether that means learning emotion regulation, improving communication, or building routines for focus and sleep.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit into real life. Video lets you work face-to-face for deeper dialogue and skill practice. Phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or you need a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow short updates, coaching, and quick support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to work on skills, process emotions, and track progress without rearranging your whole day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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