About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Minnesota. She brings 25 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, depression, or chronic stress. Her approach aims to help people regain momentum and build useful coping skills.
She uses a mix of client-centered work and structured techniques. That means sessions often start by listening closely to what matters to the person and then adding tools from other approaches when they fit.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) are part of her toolkit for addressing mood, relationships, and worrying thoughts. EMDR is also available when trauma or troubling memories are central to the concern. In practical terms this can mean learning ways to manage distressing images and reduce the hold painful memories have on daily life.
Christine also considers the whole person - emotional, physical, and spiritual - when planning care. Clients can expect to work on skills they already have and learn a few new ones to face specific problems. Topics she commonly addresses include stress, sleep, eating and body image concerns, anger, relationship struggles, caregiver stress, and major life transitions.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, aging issues, attachment or abandonment concerns, and family of origin questions. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a variety of online formats. Christine encourages a collaborative pace so each person moves forward in ways that feel manageable and meaningful.
Approaches for online work and practical support
Christine blends client-centered therapy with structured methods to make online sessions feel focused and useful. Client-centered therapy means listening closely and following the person's priorities, helping them notice strengths and choose what to try next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers straightforward ways to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and anger in online sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used when traumatic memories or intense reactions are central; online EMDR involves guided processing and stabilization techniques adapted for remote work.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk through goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Christine aims to tailor the mix of listening, skill-building, and memory-processing to each person's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer real practical benefits. Video lets people work face to face when meetings need more nuance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or being on camera doesn't fit. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and to use therapy in ways that fit daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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