About Christina
Christina “Christie” Samulevich offers help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction issues, relationship and intimacy struggles, grief, and compassion fatigue. She supports concerns related to self esteem, career shifts, coping with life changes, and LGBT-related challenges. Christie works with many other focused issues such as body image, codependency, commitment worries, and isolation or loneliness.
Christie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She brings three years of professional experience to sessions and aims to create a straightforward, respectful space for honest conversation.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Christie uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are also part of her toolkit when people want clear goals and steps forward. In appointments she focuses on real-life problems and useful tools. Sessions may include skill practice, short-term goal setting, and talking through difficult memories or decisions.
She helps people find small changes that make life more manageable. Christie provides services while based in Illinois and conducts therapy in English. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Christie draws on client-centered care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people manage symptoms and reach goals. Client-centered care focuses on listening and following the client’s pace, which helps when someone needs a non-judgmental space to talk through hard decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christie will discuss needs, goals, and personal preferences and help decide which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can fit during a busy day or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text can be useful for shorter check-ins, coping skills practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around daily life and responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English