About Christina
Christina Lacey is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports clients facing life changes, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, compassion fatigue, bipolar-related issues, and ADHD. Christina draws on eight years of clinical experience to offer calm, practical guidance.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life steps clients can try between meetings. Christina tracks progress so changes are visible and motivation stays steady. Christina combines several approaches to match each person’s needs.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings. Cognitive behavioral techniques help spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness skills are used to reduce reactivity and increase focus in daily life.
She also integrates emotion-focused and narrative methods when they fit a client’s story. Emotion-focused work helps name and process strong feelings. Narrative work helps people reframe difficult chapters and connect with values.
Clients can expect practical tools, steady feedback, and a respectful atmosphere. Christina aims to make therapy understandable and usable, especially when stress or life changes feel overwhelming. She brings warmth and directness to each session, helping people move toward clearer choices and better coping.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how close relationships influence feelings and behaviors. Online sessions using this approach help identify patterns in relationships and practice new, more supported ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions. Delivered by video or phone, CBT provides concrete exercises and short homework tasks that can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and together they will choose methods that fit. That collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust techniques if something isn't working.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping strategies, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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