About Christy
Christy Garnhart is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use to cope with stress, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Christy writes in plain terms and aims to make therapy feel useful from the first session.
She draws on seven years of clinical experience as an LCSW working in Illinois. Her work has included helping people who face trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and the challenges that come with parenting and blended family situations.
Background and approach
She also helps people navigate communication problems, impulsivity, and issues tied to identity and social anxiety. Christy uses approaches that help people set goals and find motivation to change. She looks for strengths people already have and builds on them.
She also helps clients notice unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and tries out small adjustments that can make daily life easier. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Christy often helps clients break big problems into smaller steps they can try between meetings.
She also supports parents in finding programs and services for a child's social and emotional needs when that is helpful. Her style is direct but compassionate. She works with people to develop clear goals and measures progress along the way.
If a parent or individual wants straightforward, skill-based support for ADHD, mood concerns, or family stress, Christy offers a collaborative, down-to-earth approach.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It focuses on building motivation and resolving mixed feelings, which can be useful for issues like impulsivity, substance use, or making life changes.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on practical goals and small, achievable steps. It asks what will be different when things are better and helps people try brief, targeted strategies to reach those outcomes. This approach often suits people who want direct, short-term progress on specific problems.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christy works with clients to identify which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what’s working, adjust the plan, and try different strategies if needed to find the best fit.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing problem-solving, and quick follow-ups between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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