About Christina
Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Wisconsin with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people regain confidence and handle hard moments. Her background includes crisis services, corrections, independent practice, and community settings.
Christina uses down-to-earth guidance to help clients take practical next steps. She holds a Bachelor of Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a Master of Science in Education - Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin.
Background and approach
Her credential is LPC, which she practices in Wisconsin. Christina has worked with individuals managing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and ADHD among other concerns. Her counseling style leans on Motivational Interviewing to draw out a person’s own reasons for change.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques and mindfulness practices when they fit a client's needs. Sessions aim to teach skills, build coping tools, and strengthen decision-making. Christina is comfortable addressing relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, career and self-esteem struggles, and caregiving stress.
She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care histories, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics. The focus is on clear, achievable steps rather than long lectures. In sessions she offers a calm, encouraging presence and practical strategies to try between meetings.
People who want straightforward guidance and skill-based work often find this approach helpful. Christina meets clients where they are and works with them to set realistic goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christina often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of behaving. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can try small experiments to see what changes. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christina will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and what feels most useful. She combines techniques and adjusts the plan so it fits the client's needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video is useful for longer sessions and skills practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text are handy for quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and stay connected when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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