About Christine
Christine Dicus is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Christine works in English and practices from Missouri.
She leans on clear, direct conversation to help people identify next steps and build coping routines that fit real life. Christine uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s goals in view. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. Her background includes work in residential settings, prisons and jails, and traditional office environments. That variety shaped an adaptable approach and comfort with difficult topics such as trauma, grief, and addiction.
She also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, first responder stress, and challenges common to young adults and women. Sessions are organized around each person’s needs rather than a one-size plan. Christine usually starts with weekly meetings to build momentum, then adjusts frequency as goals are met.
She encourages regular self-care and practical strategies clients can use between sessions. Over six years as an LCSW have given her experience with process addictions, sex addiction, relationship struggles, career stress, and LGBT concerns. Her aim is straightforward: listen, collaborate on a plan, and help people find workable steps forward.
Online therapy with client-focused and behavioral approaches
Christine uses client-centered therapy to put the person’s priorities first and to build a partnership around realistic goals. This approach emphasizes listening, reflecting what matters to the individual, and shaping sessions around their needs.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits by testing small, manageable changes and tracking what works.
Motivational interviewing appears when someone feels ambivalent about change. It’s a conversational method that helps people weigh pros and cons and find internal reasons to move forward rather than feeling pushed.
Christine treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. Early sessions focus on clarifying goals, trying different strategies, and adjusting the plan together so it fits daily life and preferences.
Online formats include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different needs. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or brief reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules while keeping momentum on their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English