About Christine
Christine Gorski-Makar is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing anxiety, addiction, trauma, and related concerns. She speaks English and Ukrainian and draws on 15 years of experience to offer steady support when life feels overwhelming. Her sessions are warm and interactive.
She treats people with respect and compassion while listening carefully to what matters most to them. Christine aims to make therapy a collaborative process rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
Christine uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills to address intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping. Person-centered elements guide the work so the client’s priorities shape each session.
Her background includes many years working with addiction and trauma, including people who have experienced physical injury or emotional abuse and related post-traumatic symptoms. She has also supported individuals navigating depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and personality-related difficulties. Christine adapts talk, skills practice, and problem-solving to fit each person’s needs.
She helps clients build tools for better sleep, manage anger, improve relationships, and cope with life changes. The goal is clearer thinking and more reliable ways to handle tough moments. People who work with Christine can expect a straightforward, compassionate approach that focuses on practical steps.
She supports people as they try new strategies and refine what works for them.
Approaches you can use online and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on what matters to you, so sessions start with your goals and move at your pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and gives practical exercises to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. That means starting with what feels manageable and adding new tools as needed, together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. Video is helpful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a break at work, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to use therapy around daily life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian
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