About Christa
Christa Jacaruso is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience helping adults who feel successful on the outside but overwhelmed inside. She works with people wrestling with anxiety, addiction, relationship pain, stress, and life transitions. Her style is direct, compassionate, and practical.
Christa focuses on clear goals and everyday skills. She helps clients build coping tools, set healthy boundaries, and break repeating patterns. Sessions combine practical exercises with attention to emotions and relationships.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with substance use and behavioral addictions, compulsive behaviors, and recovery from emotionally abusive or narcissistic relationships. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, grief, and major life changes. Christa uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to match each person’s needs.
That can include skills for managing intense emotions, mindfulness practices, and creative techniques like art-based work. The aim is insight plus usable tools that fit daily life. She works with motivated adults who are ready to take an active role in change.
In the first sessions she helps set clear, practical goals and a step-by-step plan to reach them. People who want straightforward feedback and skills training often find her approach helpful.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online work
Christa uses a small set of evidence-based techniques to focus on change and coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills teach practical tools for managing strong emotions and improving relationships; these are useful for anxiety, anger, and relationship strain. Mindfulness practices help people notice thoughts and sensations without reacting immediately, which supports stress reduction and clearer choices. She also integrates creative approaches such as art-based exercises to help people express difficult feelings when words are hard to find. These methods can make it easier to uncover patterns and try new responses in everyday situations. Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to use and adjust the plan as progress is made. Confirm current session options before booking to learn how she offers services. Online therapy can make it easier to fit work or family schedules, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice skills in the settings where they live and work, then review what helped with their therapist at the next meeting.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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