About Christine
Christine Gorski-Makar is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD. She speaks English and Ukrainian and brings 15 years of experience to sessions. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take realistic steps toward change.
Christine draws on a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies are offered to help manage intense emotions and improve coping skills. She also emphasizes a client-centered stance, giving space for people to describe what matters most to them. Mindfulness practices are woven in when helpful to reduce stress and increase present-moment focus.
Christine tailors conversations and plans rather than following a one-size-fits-all script. Her background includes long experience supporting people with addiction and trauma, and working with conditions such as bipolar disorder, autism spectrum concerns, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and personality-related challenges. That experience informs practical strategies for daily life, sleep, eating, work, and relationships.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Christine works with each person to set small, doable steps and track progress. She supports people who want clearer routines, better emotional balance, or help coping with major life changes.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online sessions
Christine commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and compulsive patterns. CBT involves structured conversations, simple homework, and practical skill practice that work well over video or messaging.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills lend themselves to short check-ins, role practice on calls, and using text or chat to reinforce skills between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining skill-focused CBT and DBT tools with a client-centered conversation style and mindfulness practices.
Online formats make sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing prompts, skill practice, and brief support between scheduled appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian
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