About Christine
Christine Shim is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience in New York. She began her career in nonprofit and healthcare settings and brings practical, everyday skills to therapy. Christine keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to the person in front of her.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats people as experts on their own lives and helps them name patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Christine often uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based methods to help with stress and anxiety. She also draws on emotion-focused work when relationships and intimacy come up. Clients commonly come for help with worry, low mood, and major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, and career stress. Christine addresses a wide range of concerns including body image, attachment issues, chronic illness, and relationship communication problems. Sessions aim to be practical and goal-oriented.
Christine works with clients to set small, manageable steps and to build coping skills. She balances short-term solutions with deeper work on patterns that repeat over time. Christine offers video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules.
She accepts international clients and conducts therapy in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Online tools and approaches that guide change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, helps reflect what matters, and creates space for honest conversation. This approach is helpful when someone wants a supportive place to talk through decisions, relationships, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions often include simple experiments and practice tasks to reduce anxiety or low mood and to improve daily routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which many people find useful for strong emotions or relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest options. Together they decide what to try first and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only. Live chat or text-based messaging can serve as quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English