About Christine
Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with seven years of clinical experience. She has worked with a wide range of people across life stages and settings. Her background includes supporting clients through anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and identity-related concerns.
Her recent practice has included work with people in the LGBTQIA+ community as they process relationship, family, and identity questions. She is also kink and BDSM lifestyle friendly and understands ethically non-monogamous relationship styles such as polyamory.
Background and approach
Christine has experience helping people who are neurodivergent, including those with autism spectrum and ADHD diagnoses. Christine describes her approach as client goal-directive. She believes people usually know where they want to go and that therapy should gently push at the edge of comfort.
Sessions often include collaborative planning and practical tasks to try between meetings to notice small changes and measure progress. She helps people address self-esteem and body positivity concerns, navigate intra-cultural shifts like leaving conservative religious backgrounds, and cope with life changes such as career transitions, fertility stress, or parenting challenges. Christine also supports people dealing with trauma, abandonment, and attachment questions.
Outside of work she leans into humor, science fiction, crafting, and low-stakes hobbies like gardening and fish tanks. That personal curiosity shapes a warm, down-to-earth style in sessions. If someone wants practical next steps and a therapist who blends direct goals with a light touch, Christine frames therapy as a shared, step-by-step process.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters most to you and taking small, values-based steps toward those goals. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by teaching ways to act despite uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, respectful conversation where the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports self-discovery. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, exploring identity, and processing grief or cultural shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She combines hands-on skills, reflective conversations, and short activities to test what helps, and adjusts the plan as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or irregular schedules and make it easier to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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