About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and problems like grief, addiction, and stress. Christine uses a direct but caring style to help people move forward.
She spent a decade with the Department of Veterans Affairs treating veterans with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and substance use challenges. Before that she provided psychotherapy and crisis intervention in nursing homes and community mental health centers.
Background and approach
That range of settings shaped her practical, results-oriented way of working. Christine sees many concerns as rooted in difficult life experiences. She focuses on identifying those patterns and helping people change unhelpful behaviors.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and honest, with clear steps to try between meetings. Her clinical methods include cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness exercises, and trauma-focused work. She also uses motivational interviewing to support people making tough changes.
These tools are chosen to match each person’s situation and goals. People who prefer a therapist who speaks plainly and gives direct feedback often find her approach useful. She aims to combine tough questions with practical strategies.
The overall goal is better day-to-day functioning and more control over symptoms.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Christine often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and then replace them with more effective choices; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to address symptoms that stem from adverse experiences, using techniques that help process and reduce the hold of those memories.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in regularly to see what helps and adjusts the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English
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