About Christine
Christine Nusser is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and other emotional struggles. She practices from Tennessee and draws on three decades of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. Her approach is direct and person-focused, helping people set realistic goals and take small steps forward.
Christine favors clear, collaborative sessions where clients identify the problems they want to address. She uses short-term strategies for immediate coping and longer-term skills for stability and growth.
Background and approach
Conversations often include skill practice, goal setting, and gentle reflection on patterns that keep problems going. Her background includes a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee and an MBA in finance from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She also completed undergraduate studies in psychology at Lipscomb University.
Those experiences inform a pragmatic style that blends clinical knowledge with real-world problem solving. Over 30 years in practice have given her experience with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, bipolar conditions, obsessive thoughts, and co-occurring substance concerns. She also supports people dealing with body image, caregiver stress, attachment questions, and the emotional fallout of adoption or abandonment.
Christine adapts tools from several evidence-based approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions are shaped around what a client wants to change, with an emphasis on building coping skills, improving communication, and increasing emotional awareness.
Approaches that fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that align with personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and difficulties that come from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practice and skill building. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that match the client’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and can shift over time as progress and choices change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins, quick coping tools, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English