About Christina
Christina Macnamara brings nearly three decades of social work experience to her practice in Florida. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth.
Sessions are focused on what feels most pressing and useful right now. Christina centers sessions on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered and solution-focused work to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when thoughts and behaviors need to be shifted. Motivational interviewing helps people find the drive to change, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers tools for living with difficult feelings. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
She talks with people about coping skills, communication, and decision-making. Christina also addresses complex issues like trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and adoption or attachment concerns. She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle what comes next.
Sessions often look like problem-solving conversations guided by the client’s priorities. Christina supports work on relationships, self-esteem, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue. She helps people untangle grief, abandonment issues, codependency, and commitment concerns.
Practical matters like chronic pain, cancer, aging, and co-morbid medical issues are all within her focus. Christina makes space for people coping with ADHD, body image worries, and blended family dynamics. Her goal is to help clients move forward with clearer choices and steadier coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Christina uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice and accept difficult feelings while still moving toward what matters to them. This approach can help with anxiety, grief, and ongoing struggles that don’t go away with quick fixes.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the client set the pace and goals. That method is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through decisions or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used when thoughts and behaviors are getting in the way; it offers concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christina will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and will try different strategies to find what helps most. The plan is adjusted as progress is made and new concerns come up.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during the week, or sessions that don’t require travel, helping therapy fit into daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English