About Cristy
Cristy Bixler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports those facing relationship strains, parenting challenges, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and grief. Cristy practices from Illinois and brings seven years of clinical experience to her work.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She meets people where they are and uses active, empathetic listening to understand immediate needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings to feel safer and more in control. Cristy draws on client-centered methods and motivational interviewing to build motivation and respect each person’s pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage strong emotions.
These approaches are adapted to the issue at hand rather than applied the same way every time. In session, dialogue is tailored to clear goals. Parents might work on stress and routines, while someone with addiction concerns could focus on short-term coping and decision-making.
Cristy emphasizes strengths and small, doable changes that add up over time. She welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and offers services in English. Cristy aims to support clients as they take the first steps toward clearer thinking, steadier moods, and healthier behaviors.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a collaborative relationship. It helps when someone needs empathy, acceptance, and a clear space to talk through worries and tough decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and some addiction concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods that match their goals, concerns, and comfort with online formats. That choice is reviewed and adjusted as progress is made, so care stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework review, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options let people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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