About Christina
Christina Steele-Lietz offers a warm, person-focused approach rooted in listening and practical problem solving. She introduces herself as a companion in the work, not an authority, and helps people figure out what matters to them. Christina is a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Illinois with twenty years of professional experience.
She frames therapy as teamwork. Sessions focus on real-life responses to stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and depression.
Background and approach
Christina also supports people navigating relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, identity and LGBT matters, attention challenges, and issues around eating and sleep. Her background includes long-term clinical work across community and clinical settings. That experience shapes an approach that balances acceptance, clear problem-solving, and emotional connection.
Christina blends methods so conversations stay practical and grounded in everyday life. In sessions she helps people notice what they can control and what they cannot. She uses gentle questioning and reflective listening to help clients name values, try new responses, and build small skills that make life feel more manageable.
She speaks plainly and keeps goals focused on what each person wants to change. Christina encourages self-compassion during hard times. She helps people learn how to soothe themselves, set boundaries, and make decisions that match their priorities.
The aim is steady, sustainable change that fits each person’s life.
How evidence-informed approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking actions that match those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching people how to notice thoughts and choose actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and habits and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and stress by giving manageable tools to try between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people in naming and processing strong emotions and improving emotional connections; it is helpful for intimacy, relationship strain, and grief.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina works with each person to try methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and full conversations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice, or support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy days while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English