About Christina
Christina Steele-Lietz blends person-centered care with evidence-based methods to help people navigate change, loss, and difficult emotions.
Background and approach
As a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience, she favors a collaborative, nonjudgmental stance that treats the client as an equal partner in identifying facts, exploring options, and shaping a sustainable way of living. Christina’s work emphasizes building skills to tolerate suffering, respond to what cannot be controlled, and clarify values that guide daily choices.
She offers practical interventions for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and many relational and identity-related concerns including LGBT issues, intimacy, and family dynamics. Christina also addresses challenges such as sleeping and eating problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness, dissociation, and career or life-purpose questions.
Her training includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and EMDR, which she integrates with a warm, listening-focused approach. Christina holds LMSW and LCSW credentials in Illinois and invites people to take a first step toward greater wellbeing by prioritizing their mental health.
Integrating evidence-based approaches into online care
Christina often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and EMDR when working with clients online. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and building psychological flexibility so people can move toward meaningful goals even when discomfort arises; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. EMDR uses structured processing techniques to help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions, and it can be applied when past events are affecting day-to-day functioning.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Christina uses an exploratory, collaborative process to determine which methods best match each person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts interventions as therapy progresses to stay aligned with the client’s priorities.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexible options to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats can make it easier to maintain consistent care while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they allow the same clinical tools to be applied in a way that suits each person’s life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English