About Christi
Christi Stephenson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical, evidence-based support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are, building on strengths and tailoring conversations to individual needs. Christi brings six years of clinical practice as an LCSW in North Carolina.
She has a longer background as a social worker overall and uses that experience when helping people cope with worry, depression, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures and the burnout that can come from caregiving roles. In sessions she works to create a respectful and sensitive space. Conversations are goal-oriented and shaped around what the person needs that week.
She will help identify manageable steps for things like reducing anxiety, improving self-esteem, or handling difficult family moments. Christi has additional focus in adoption and foster care issues, divorce and separation, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety or phobia. She adapts plans to each individual, drawing on techniques shown to help with trauma, coping, and relationship concerns.
Clients can expect clear communication about goals and next steps. Christi encourages small, achievable changes and checks progress along the way to make sure therapy stays useful and relevant.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. One common approach focuses on practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching step-by-step strategies to manage worry, reduce avoidance, and handle overwhelm. These tools are useful for daily stress, social anxiety, and work-related pressure.Another frequently used method addresses trauma and post-traumatic stress by helping people process difficult memories at a pace they can manage. This approach emphasizes safety, grounding skills, and gradual steps toward feeling more in control when reminders of past events come up.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful. That partnership helps shape which methods are used and how quickly to move between them.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging lets people check in between meetings or use shorter, frequent touchpoints. These options give flexibility for scheduling, continuity during life changes, and different ways to engage with therapy that match personal needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English