About Christopher
Christopher Lankford is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with five years of clinical experience. He earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of New England in December 2018. Christopher works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and similar struggles.
He focuses on helping clients build practical skills they can use day to day. He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Christopher emphasizes respect and dignity for each person. He listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Christopher uses evidence-based approaches to teach coping skills.
He helps clients learn ways to accept uncomfortable feelings and respond differently to them. Sessions often include simple exercises and real-world practice between meetings. He has experience addressing trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and challenges related to identity and relationships.
Additional focus areas include attachment issues, communication problems, substance concerns, eating-related issues, and body image struggles. Christopher supports people exploring gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. His style is practical and collaborative.
He works with each person to pick strategies that fit their life and values. Christopher encourages small steps and tracks progress along the way.
Approaches for online work and practical tools
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that align with their values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions because it focuses on what matters most rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence one another. Sessions often include skill practice, thought tracking, and behavior experiments to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English