About Christine
Christine Shephard is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with seven years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. Shephard also addresses compassion fatigue and challenges that come with caregiving and chronic health issues.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort through what matters most to them. Sessions are calm and nonjudgmental. The aim is to find manageable steps that fit each person's daily life and responsibilities.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with a range of concerns such as relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, anger, and addiction. She also supports people facing aging and geriatric issues, cancer, chronic pain and illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. These topics often show up alongside mood or anxiety struggles, and she helps people connect the pieces.
Clinically, she draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered work, and mindfulness. Those methods are used to build skills for emotion regulation, clearer thinking, and value-based action. Her sessions can include short-term coaching or longer work depending on a person’s needs.
She encourages small experiments between meetings so progress can be measured in real life. That practical focus helps people make steady changes without feeling overwhelmed.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where someone wants clearer priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen mood or stress. It is practical for worries, sleep problems, and low motivation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that suit your needs and preferences. This is collaborative - goals and techniques can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by a licensed professional in several formats: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can use less bandwidth and be easier on the go, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English