About Christine
Christine “Chrissy” Bruso brings a client-centered style to her work. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with 14 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, life changes, and parenting challenges. She keeps sessions direct and kind.
Conversations focus on practical steps and clear goals. She offers tools for coping, building self-esteem, and managing symptoms of depression and ADHD. Chrissy often helps people sort family and relationship issues.
Background and approach
That includes communication problems, boundaries, family of origin concerns, and adoption or foster care related topics. She also addresses workplace stress, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies.
She partners with people to identify small, manageable changes that fit real life. Sessions are aimed at building skills you can use between meetings. Parents and young adults will find specific support for postpartum mood changes, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, self-love, and navigating the pressures of parenting.
Chrissy also works with people facing body image struggles, isolation, and questions about life purpose. She communicates in English and offers a variety of online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Scheduling follows routine business hours and messaging is typically checked Monday through Friday during weekday hours.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building self-awareness and addressing family or parenting concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It breaks problems into small parts and teaches skills for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and workplace or school challenges.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on what works now and on small steps forward. Sessions identify strengths and set clear, short-term goals to produce practical change within daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide what to try first and adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English