About Cristina
Cristina Spataro is a New York State licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of practice. She focuses on common and urgent concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and ADHD. She aims to help people untangle what feels overwhelming and make clearer choices for daily life.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions are aimed at solving immediate problems and building practical skills. She uses conversations that focus on what the person is facing now, then works toward small, realistic changes that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Cristina blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques. She listens closely and follows each person’s priorities. Then she offers tools to shift unhelpful thinking and to create manageable routines and coping strategies.
She has spent nearly two decades supporting people through crisis and transition. That experience shapes a calm, grounded approach to difficult topics like trauma, loss, addiction, and long-term mood concerns. She also helps with relationship and communication problems and with questions about life purpose and career direction.
Sessions are available in English and are offered to people located in New York. Cristina encourages practical, goal-focused work so people notice real differences in day-to-day life. Her aim is to help clients feel more confident making choices and handling life’s ups and downs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person's own goals. In practice this means sessions concentrate on what matters most to the client and adapt to their pace and preferences. It helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic place to talk through difficult decisions or emotional pain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. A therapist and client identify distressing patterns, test new ways of thinking, and try small behavioral experiments. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing symptoms related to ADHD by creating routines and practical strategies.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Cristina will work with each person to decide whether a listening-focused path, CBT tools, or a blend fits best. She checks goals regularly and adjusts methods based on progress and preference.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and exercises, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, and messaging lets people check in between sessions or use shorter updates. These formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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