About Christine
Christine Ryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with four decades of experience in mental health work. She offers a calm, practical style and focuses on finding clear next steps for people facing big life changes. Her work blends therapy and coaching to help clients move forward.
She began her career in psychiatric hospital social work and community mental health settings before completing a master's degree at Arizona State University.
Background and approach
She has been licensed since 1983 and has spent much of her career helping people with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and chronic illness. Over the years she added life coaching to her practice and began providing services by phone and online. That shift lets her meet people where they are and use shorter, solution-focused sessions when that fits the persons needs.
She also has experience responding to disasters and working with people facing catastrophic illness. In sessions she typically moves through three simple questions: What is happening now, what has this meant for you, and where do you want to go next. That structure helps keep work practical and focused on change that can make a real difference in daily life.
She draws on Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Solution-Focused approaches to tailor support to each person's goals. Christines background includes long-standing work with adults dealing with parenting stress, caregiving burdens, career transitions, identity concerns, and intimacy-related issues. People often come to her wanting relief from stress or anxiety, help grieving losses, or guidance on making life decisions.
She aims to be a steady collaborator in finding hopeful, workable steps forward.
Approach and options for online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and values and to make decisions that feel right for them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical tools to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change habits that cause stress.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, concrete steps and on what works now. It is useful when a person wants quicker, goal-oriented change and clear actions to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and shifting course until the work fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video mimics an in-person visit for deeper conversation, while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in more often or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options give flexibility for different schedules, comfort levels, and day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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