About Christine
Christine Burns is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She works with clients facing life changes, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction struggles, and trouble sleeping. Her practice also addresses aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness and pain, hospice and end-of-life counseling, multicultural concerns, seasonal affective disorder, and women's issues.
Christine takes a respectful and compassionate approach. She listens first, then shapes conversations to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be tried between meetings and on building skills to cope with hard moments. She encourages small changes that add up over time. Her work centers on collaboration.
Christine partners with clients to set goals and makes adjustments as life shifts. She explains options plainly and helps people weigh what feels manageable. The tone is steady and direct, with attention to cultural and life-stage differences.
Christine draws on many evidence-based methods to address symptoms and daily struggles. She aims for tools that fit a client's routine, whether for dealing with grief, easing anxiety, or managing long-term health issues. Conversations also cover relationship patterns and intimacy when those areas cause distress.
People who choose Christine can expect straightforward guidance and practical techniques. She frames progress as gradual and honors each person's pace. Her Texas LCSW license reflects her long clinical background, and she brings that experience to collaborative care.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christine uses proven, evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. One common approach focuses on practical skills for managing anxiety and depression, teaching breathing, planning, and behavior changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another approach addresses grief and loss through structured conversations that help people make sense of their experience and find ways to remember and adjust to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies if something does not fit, so the plan evolves with the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use body language and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into shorter breaks. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English