About Christian
Christian Specks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana with 14 years of clinical experience. She blends clinical work and an educational perspective to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other life challenges. Christian speaks plain language and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy parents and adults.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, clearer ways to think about problems, and small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
Christian draws on client-centered work to make space for each person's story and choices. Her background includes long experience in social work and work with people navigating disability, special education, and caregiving challenges. That history informs how she supports people facing trauma, grief, addiction, or chronic illness.
She also helps with parenting stress, relationship struggles, and career or life transitions. Christian incorporates cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused tools to set concrete goals and test small experiments between sessions. She also uses narrative approaches to help people reframe difficult experiences and DBT-informed skills when emotions feel overwhelming.
Her style is practical, direct, and collaborative. People who prefer clear goals, skill-building, and a respectful listening space often find her approach useful. Sessions are offered in English and available through a variety of online formats to fit busy schedules.
How therapy approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to each person. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to name problems and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches practical ways to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, includes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings run high.Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit the client’s needs and preferences. Together they will track what helps and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. This collaborative process helps find a sensible, personalized path forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or reminders. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English