About Christina
Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 11 years of experience based in Minnesota. She takes a client-centered approach and works to create an accepting, calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, trauma, phobias, and other concerns. Crissy aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.
In sessions she blends practical tools with attention to emotions and meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thoughts and patterns that fuel anxiety, panic attacks, and depression.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus for sleep or concentration problems. Emotionally-Focused ideas guide work on relationship hurts and intimacy-related concerns. She has experience addressing trauma and post-traumatic stress in different forms, including intergenerational trauma and disaster-related distress.
Addictions, process addictions, and substance use concerns are handled with a focus on coping skills and motivation. Crissy also supports people facing grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD challenges, and phobias. Her background includes many years working with Native American communities and familiarity with Ojibwe culture.
She approaches cultural and multicultural concerns with respect and curiosity. Crissy believes clients are experts on their lives and that therapy should build on what already works for them. Online session options include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are run through a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on treating people with respect and listening closely to what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through anxiety, grief, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides concrete tools to notice and change thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is useful for panic attacks, phobias, sleep problems, and mood concerns because it offers step-by-step strategies to try between sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That might mean trying mindfulness exercises one week and focused CBT practice the next, then adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes those choices easier to access. Video calls let people use real-time conversation and visual cues for emotionally focused work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, homework prompts, or short talks between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility for different schedules and needs while keeping continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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