About Christine
Christine Piddington uses Existential and Solution-Focused approaches to help people work through painful life moments. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - in California with 11 years of experience. Christine writes plainly and meets people where they are.
Her work is rooted in grief and loss, informed by years as a hospice social worker. She offers practical support for grief and also helps people manage anxiety, stress, and depression.
Background and approach
Christine also addresses trauma, addictions, relationship strain, parenting stress, and career concerns. She has substantial remote practice experience and has been providing therapy by video and phone for the past 7.5 years. Her background includes advocacy work in the Peace Corps in Belize and roles in hospital and prison settings, which shaped her approach to complex life problems and systems navigation.
Christine helps people break problems into manageable steps and find meaning when life feels overwhelming. She draws on Solution-Focused techniques to set small, achievable goals and on Existential ideas to talk about values, choices, and purpose. Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward.
Clients can expect a collaborative style where their priorities lead the work. Christine mentions experience supporting people with caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She practices in California and conducts sessions in English.
Existential and Solution-Focused Care Online
Christine uses two main approaches that translate well to online work. Existential Therapy focuses on values, meaning, and the choices people make; it helps when someone feels stuck, questions purpose, or faces major life transitions. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical steps and small goals, helping people move forward by identifying what already works and building on it. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most, with the client steering the pace and focus. Online formats offer flexibility and make ongoing work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or day-to-day coaching between sessions. These options help people keep continuity of care and adapt therapy to their schedule and needs.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English