About Christine
Christine Penwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Tennessee who focuses on practical help for everyday stresses. She helps people handle anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. Christine works in a direct, empathetic way and treats each person as the expert on their life.
She uses a client-centered stance grounded in empathy and unconditional positive regard. Sessions are guided by the client's priorities while Christine offers tools to improve coping and communication.
Background and approach
She combines short-term problem solving with attention to deeper attachment and trauma patterns. Her background includes seven years of clinical experience across multiple states. That work has included supporting parents managing neurodivergence and addressing trauma, family conflict, and separation.
She draws on attachment ideas to understand how early relationships affect current patterns. Christine often integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation skills. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
The aim is practical progress you can use between sessions. Clients can expect a warm, straightforward approach. Christine values clear communication and helps set achievable goals.
She supports people working through issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, dissociation, hoarding, and other family of origin challenges.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christine draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. This approach helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment, or repeating relationship patterns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change mood and functioning. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and many daily challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She listens to what matters most and adjusts between insight-focused and skills-oriented methods as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or want brief, ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to practice new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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