About Christine
Christine Piddington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of practice. She offers calm, practical support for people facing loss, stress, and major life shifts. She uses straightforward conversations to help people manage grief and loss.
Her background includes hospice social work, which shaped how she listens and responds to people during hard times. She spent two years in the Peace Corps in Belize working with people affected by HIV/AIDS and advocating for marginalized communities.
Background and approach
Christine has provided remote therapy for the past 7.5 years to people across California. She draws on experience from hospital and prison settings and from work helping clients navigate workplace disability and housing matters such as Emotional Support Animals. That experience informs how she helps with real-life problems.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship and parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and blended family issues. Christine aims to work collaboratively and respectfully.
She focuses on practical steps that match each person's needs and goals. The first conversations emphasize what matters most to the client and clear, achievable next steps.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Existential Therapy helps people reflect on meaning, values, and life choices. In brief, it invites honest conversations about what matters and how someone wants to live, which can be useful when coping with loss, major transitions, or questions about purpose.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, practical steps toward specific goals. Sessions identify what is already working and build on strengths to create manageable changes, which often appeals to people juggling busy lives or facing immediate stresses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She combines meaning-focused reflection with concrete goal-setting so sessions stay both thoughtful and action-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular meetings. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when shorter, more frequent contact helps maintain momentum. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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