About Christine
Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience based in Georgia. She has worked across a wide range of settings and brings a down-to-earth approach to sessions. Christine aims to make therapy approachable and practical for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She spends time helping people set clear goals and then supporting small steps toward those goals. Christine encourages trying short exercises between sessions to test what works.
Background and approach
If homework doesn’t happen, she treats that as useful information rather than failure. Her work has included supporting people in the LGBT community as they process identity and relationship questions. She is also kink and BDSM lifestyle friendly and understands ethically non-monogamous relationships such as polyamory.
Christine has experience with autism spectrum and ADHD-related concerns and helps people develop strategies that fit their daily lives. Christine also helps with anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, stress, and life transitions. She offers a practical, gentle push when clients are ready to move beyond comfort zones.
Humor and real-life examples are often part of sessions to make change feel manageable. Outside of work she enjoys sci-fi and fantasy, board games, art made from thrifted items, and tending a small aquarium. Those interests often help her connect with clients who value creativity, curiosity, or unconventional lifestyles.
Christine invites people to explore goals and try new ways of coping at a pace that feels doable.
How chosen approaches work in online sessions
This therapist uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as part of her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. ACT helps people notice what matters to them and take actions that match those values, even when uncomfortable feelings appear.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Christine will talk with each person about goals, past attempts at change, and what feels doable. Together they decide whether CBT, ACT, or a mix of methods fits best and then adjust as progress is tracked over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, sharing small exercises, or fitting brief sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while tailoring how often and how you connect.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English