About Christopher
Christopher Rizzo is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress. He focuses on practical steps parents and caregivers can understand quickly. He is experienced with LGBT concerns and with life transitions that feel overwhelming.
Christopher uses a straightforward, collaborative style. Sessions start by identifying the most pressing problems, then move to skills and small changes that fit daily life. He works with thinking patterns, emotion regulation, and values-based goals so people can handle intense moments and make steady progress.
Background and approach
Over seven years of clinical work have shaped his approach. He draws from cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, and from dialectical methods to teach emotion management and distress tolerance. Acceptance and commitment ideas help clients clarify what matters and commit to realistic actions.
He pays close attention to identity-related stress and the impact of relationships. Conversations often cover communication skills, coping with shame or isolation, and navigating separation or loss. Christopher also supports people dealing with substance concerns, impulsivity, and the fallout of domestic violence.
Practical tools are paired with a calm, empathetic stance. He encourages concrete experiments between sessions, such as small behavior changes or specific communication practices. This helps people test what works and build confidence over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions typically include short exercises and behavioral experiments to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, using teachable skills and brief homework tasks to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness through concrete skills practice that transfers well to remote formats.Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins or quick skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress consistent across life’s demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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