About Christie
Christie Alexander Trimmer offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction or relationship strain. She writes and talks in a warm, respectful way to help people find small, useful steps forward. Christie is an ACA counsellor with 11 years of experience in clinical and community settings.
She has worked directly with people facing trauma, substance dependence, depression and intense life changes. Christie was part of the inaugural team delivering the Matrix Program, an intensive outpatient approach for substance dependence that was new to her state.
Background and approach
That work shaped her focus on practical skills and relapse prevention. Christie blends several evidence-based methods in sessions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters and commit to small action.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits. She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to help people understand relationship patterns. Sessions aim to build clarity and day-to-day coping rather than labels or jargon.
Christie tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. People leave with concrete skills for emotion regulation, communication and coping with triggers. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
Christie respects each person’s pace and choices while offering practical tools and steps. She supports people who want to restore balance, confidence and agency in their lives.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small, meaningful actions even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It suits anxiety, avoidance and a sense of being stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and building new habits through practice and behavioural experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression and common stress reactions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christie will help you explore which methods fit your goals, circumstances and comfort level. She adapts her style and uses techniques from different approaches to match what you need in the moment.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when you want it. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skill practice or people who like writing as a way to process. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and daily life while keeping a steady therapeutic plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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