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Christina Chykirda, LPC

Calm, direct support for anxiety and life changes

10 years in practice · based in Connecticut · sessions in English · online sessions

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About Christina

Christina Chykirda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, mood challenges, and phobias. She uses a straightforward and compassionate style to help people feel heard and understood. Christina focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions to make small, steady changes.

She brings ten years of experience in mental health settings, including inpatient care, residential programs, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and standard outpatient work.

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Background and approach

That range means she has seen many presentations of depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance-related concerns. Christina also has experience with eating concerns, bipolar mood patterns, attention difficulties, and anger or impulse challenges. Her session style is supportive, empathic, and nonjudgmental.

She works collaboratively to set clear goals and often assigns short homework tasks to help skills stick. Education about a concern or diagnosis is part of her approach so clients gain practical awareness of what they are facing. Clinically, Christina blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and dialectical behavior ideas.

She also draws on mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning and manage intense emotions. Her aim is to gently challenge unhelpful patterns while teaching healthier ways to cope. Clients can expect straightforward talk, actionable strategies, and encouragement to face difficult feelings rather than avoid them.

Christina emphasizes steady progress and aims to help people regain control over daily functioning and relationships.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Christina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and learn emotion regulation skills. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought that feed anxiety or low mood and replacing them with practical strategies that change behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

She also leans on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, validation, and working at the client’s pace to set useful goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together; Christina will help you decide which techniques match your needs, goals, and personal preferences through an open, collaborative process.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into everyday life. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility for scheduling and consistent follow-through while using the approaches described above to address anxiety, phobias, trauma recovery, and habit change.
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Questions people ask

What concerns does Christina commonly help with?
She works with anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleep issues, relationship and intimacy matters, grief, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic approach and style?
She uses a collaborative, empathic, and nonjudgmental style. Christina combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior techniques and adds mindfulness and existential perspectives when useful.
How long has she worked in mental health?
Christina has ten years of experience in mental health settings, including inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient care.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Connecticut.
Which languages are supported and can she see international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
Christina provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
10 years
Licensed
Connecticut
Languages
English

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