About Christina
Christina Balboni is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She draws on eight years of professional experience to offer steady, practical support. Her work often focuses on issues like coping with loss, declining health, and the emotional effects of aging.
She has more than a decade of experience in the geriatric field and says that work shaped her approach.
Background and approach
Christina keeps conversations direct and compassionate. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, realistic steps forward. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs.
That can mean space to talk through grief, coaching around motivation and confidence, or strategies to manage anxiety and stress in daily life. Christina emphasizes respect and sensitivity in every interaction. She also works with people facing relationship and attachment struggles, body image concerns, chronic pain or illness, and patterns such as codependency or avoidance.
Her background includes supporting people through commitment and communication challenges. Christina aims to make the first step feel achievable. She will work with each person to build a plan that fits their goals and pace.
For those in California who want to try online options, she offers several remote session formats to fit different needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical steps. One common approach helps people learn how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches simple skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another approach emphasizes talking through losses and adjusting to change, with support for grief and end-of-life concerns. These methods aim to build coping skills and increase day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Christina will work together with each person to decide which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences. She explains options in plain language, tries approaches for a few sessions, and adjusts the plan as progress and feedback guide the work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video helps keep face-to-face connection when it matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins work well by text or chat for quick support or scheduling between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity during major life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English