About Christine
Christine Paulsen is a licensed clinical social worker in California with four years of professional experience. She focuses on creating a calm, respectful space for people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, mood concerns, or questions about identity and relationships. Christine aims to listen first and adapt sessions to each person’s needs.
She helps people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, and the emotional fallout of trauma and grief. Christine also supports those managing bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and the strain of big life changes.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work around body image, gender dysphoria, and issues linked to alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Christine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and shapes each plan around what the person wants to achieve. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational, with space to name feelings, learn new ways of coping, and try different strategies between meetings.
She treats LGBT concerns and HIV/AIDS-related challenges with sensitivity. People working through family conflict, parenting stress, abandonment, or feelings of emptiness may find focused support here. Christine also addresses anger, jealousy, communication problems, and career-related stress.
She aims to reduce shame and help clients build clearer goals. Her license details are CA LCSW 101209 and NV LCSW 9992-C. Christine conducts sessions in English and offers a mix of remote formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Christine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new ways of thinking and acting; this can ease anxiety and improve mood. Another approach centers on building skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships by practicing communication and coping skills in small steps.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life. Together they will choose strategies and adjust them over time so the work fits what the person wants to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English