About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She helps people who are anxious, grieving, struggling with stress, or facing life changes. Many come for trauma, depression, addiction, or sleep and relationship problems.
She uses frank, direct conversations alongside steady support to help people move forward. Christine spent a decade working for the Department of Veterans Affairs where she provided therapy for veterans with post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
Before that she worked in nursing homes and community mental health centers, offering psychotherapy and crisis help to people from varied backgrounds and ages. Those roles shaped her practical, results-focused style. She identifies strongly as a trauma therapist and often links current symptoms to earlier adverse experiences.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with emphasis on honest feedback and clear steps for change. Clients who prefer directness and accountability tend to do well with her approach. Christine draws on several evidence-based methods to guide sessions, including cognitive behavioral strategies, skills from dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused interventions.
She adapts tools to what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are offered from Texas and conducted in English. Christine works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and she can help people figure out a plan that fits their daily life.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Christine commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep trouble, and some addiction concerns. Trauma-focused therapy focuses on linking current symptoms to past adverse experiences and teaching ways to process those memories and reduce their day-to-day impact.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That may mean combining CBT skills, trauma-focused techniques, and mindfulness practices over time instead of committing to a single method at the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions let you work face-to-face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or times with lower internet capacity. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief updates, coping skills practice, or when written communication feels easier. These options aim to make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English
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