About Christina
Christina Harrison offers help for stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people facing grief, relationship concerns, parenting strain, career uncertainty, and major life changes. Christina uses clear, direct conversation to help people make practical changes and feel more in control of daily life.
Christina is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in California. She brings nine years of experience in behavioral health, including earlier work as a paraprofessional in addiction treatment.
Background and approach
That background informs a straightforward, empathetic approach to recovery and coping. In sessions she focuses on understanding what matters most to each person. Christina listens without judgement and helps clients set small, manageable goals.
She uses evidence-based strategies to address unhelpful thoughts, build healthier habits, and process painful memories. Her work often blends attachment-focused ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and mindfulness practices. For people with trauma-related symptoms she incorporates EMDR when appropriate to support processing difficult experiences.
The emphasis is on skills that fit into everyday life, not on complex jargon. Christina values collaboration and respects each person’s pace. She helps clients track progress and adjust plans when needed.
People who want clear steps, emotional support, and practical tools often find this approach helpful.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach look at how you connect with others and what leads to feeling unsafe or shut down in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions CBT includes identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors between meetings to see real change. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to manage stress and strong emotions and can be practiced during short live chat or audio-guided exercises.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then suggest options to try. She adapts methods over time, checking in about what helps and what needs changing so the plan stays useful and manageable.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English