About Christine
Christine McKenna helps people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She names what you bring as the starting point and works alongside you to find practical steps forward. Christine is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, in New Hampshire with four years of practice experience.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, simple skills, and steady progress rather than jargon or long-winded explanations. Christine uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment methods to clarify values and increase willingness to act toward them. For people recovering from painful events, Christine works with trauma-focused tools that help reduce distress and reprocessing methods aimed at stuck memories. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding the drive to change addictive habits.
Her practice is practical and collaborative. Christine supports people through grief, end-of-life concerns, first responder stress, and challenges related to disaster or military experience. Sessions aim to build coping skills, boost confidence, and help people take steps they can keep doing after therapy ends.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Christine blends cognitive behavioral work with acceptance and commitment methods to give practical tools for everyday problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and support recovery from addictive habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small, value-driven steps even when feelings are difficult.She also uses trauma-focused reprocessing tools when past events keep causing distress. These approaches aim to reduce the hold of painful memories and teach coping strategies for managing triggers in daily life. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options, observe what helps, and adjust methods to fit your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into your life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text options support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats provide flexibility and make it easier to keep consistent work on goals despite a busy schedule.
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English