About Christopher
Christopher Lankford is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with five years of clinical experience. He earned a Master of Social Work in 2018 and practices in Arkansas and Missouri as an LCSW. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and depression using straightforward skill-building.
Christopher talks plainly and keeps sessions focused on what a person can do between meetings. People come to him for a range of concerns, including coping with life changes, relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges related to ADHD and bipolar mood patterns.
Background and approach
He also offers support around gender and sexual identity, body image, and substance concerns. He aims to help people find clearer ways to handle intense feelings and difficult moments. His approach blends practical tools with mindful awareness.
He teaches strategies to accept uncomfortable thoughts, notice how feelings show up, and try different responses. He also uses solution-focused methods to set small, doable goals and track progress over time. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth.
Christopher listens without judgment and helps people practice skills they can use at home. He emphasizes real-world steps - short exercises, breathing and grounding techniques, and plans for handling triggers. If someone is unsure where to begin, he offers a simple first conversation to identify priorities and build a plan.
That first step is often about feeling heard and having one clear thing to work on next.
Practical approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that match those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches experiments to test and change unhelpful patterns. These methods are helpful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has or hasn't helped before, and any preferences for therapy style. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust as progress is made, so treatment fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions offer practical benefits: video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, continue care during transitions, and practice skills in real-life settings between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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