About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She draws on 17 years of experience to offer direct, practical care. Many people come to her when they need clear feedback and steady support during hard times.
She often frames problems as reactions to difficult life events. Christine focuses on how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors. Sessions tend to be straightforward and honest, with an emphasis on realistic steps clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Before independent practice, she spent a decade at the Department of Veterans Affairs helping veterans with PTSD, mood symptoms, and substance use concerns. Her earlier work in nursing homes and community mental health included crisis intervention and therapy for people from many backgrounds. Christine uses several therapy methods to match each person’s needs.
She blends approaches like cognitive behavioral tools, skills for emotional regulation, and trauma-focused work to address immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns. She also draws on motivational strategies to help with addictive behaviors and life changes. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Christine is licensed in Texas and brings a candid, caring style to help people make practical shifts in their daily lives.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Christine uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; these are taught in simple steps and practiced between sessions to reduce symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered to improve emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication; these are useful for intense emotions and relationship stress. Trauma-focused work addresses how past events affect current reactions and includes stabilizing tools and gradual processing when a client is ready.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will discuss goals and preferences, and then recommend methods that fit those aims. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan as progress and needs evolve, keeping the process collaborative.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls approximate an in-person meeting, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins or support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while letting licensed professionals deliver consistent care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English