About Christine
Christine Piddington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She offers calm, practical support for grief, anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. Christine writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Her time as a hospice social worker shaped a focus on grief and loss. That work taught her how to hold difficult emotions and help people find ways to keep living despite pain.
Background and approach
She also has experience in hospital and prison settings, which broadened her understanding of life disruptions and practical barriers people face. Earlier service in the Peace Corps in Belize informs her advocacy background. She has worked on issues related to HIV/AIDS and helped clients with workplace disability leave and Emotional Support Animal housing needs.
These roles strengthened her skill at navigating systems and supporting daily-life problems. Christine primarily offers remote care to people in California, using video, phone, chat, and messaging. She combines existential thinking - looking at meaning, values, and choices - with a solution-focused stance that zeroes in on small, doable changes.
Sessions are collaborative and aimed at concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Parents worried about phobias, anxiety, or grief will find straightforward guidance and steady support. Christine emphasizes the person's strengths and works at a pace that fits the client's goals and life circumstances.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Existential Therapy invites people to look at what matters to them and how their choices connect to meaning. It can help when grief, life transitions, or questions about identity feel overwhelming. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, practical steps and on what changes would make a difference in daily life. This approach suits people who want focused, goal-oriented sessions they can apply between meetings.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Christine collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. She will discuss what to try first and adjust methods based on how the client responds, so the plan remains practical and person-centered.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people connect face to face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, or health needs while maintaining a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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