About Christina
Christina McGuire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience providing mental health support. She built her career after earning a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern Maine and brings practical, hands-on perspectives to therapy. Christina combines lessons from outdoor and experiential education with clinical practice.
She studied outdoor education and experiential learning at the University of New Hampshire and has worked in schools, health centers, and in people’s homes.
Background and approach
That background informs a learning-by-doing approach to emotional growth. Her style is relaxed and person-centered. Sessions focus on strengths, relationship dynamics, and clear goals.
Christina strives to help people build skills to cope better with stress, grief, addiction, mood shifts, and major life changes. She uses straightforward tools drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused methods, existential reflection, and mindfulness. Those tools are aimed at improving self-esteem, communication, self-love, and day-to-day coping rather than quick fixes.
Christina is comfortable addressing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, relationship issues, and substance use struggles. She emphasizes collaboration, practical skill-building, and helping people learn from experience so they can move forward with clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It means sessions start with listening to what matters most and building on a person’s strengths to set practical goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers clear steps and exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and change unhelpful patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how emotions shape relationships and personal reactions. It can help with communication problems, attachment concerns, and intense emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. That collaborative planning may combine ideas from different approaches as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when written reflection helps the therapeutic work.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, keep work or caregiving breaks, and maintain regular contact while trying different tools and strategies.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English