About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of practice who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, addiction, and a broad range of life stressors.
Background and approach
She brings a direct yet compassionate style that challenges avoidance and supports honest self-reflection while helping clients build practical coping strategies and healthier patterns. Her clinical background includes extensive work in medical and community settings where she provided psychotherapy and crisis intervention across diverse presenting issues.
Christine emphasizes trauma-informed care and believes many symptoms are rooted in difficult past experiences, so she blends evidence-based methods to address both immediate concerns and deeper sources of distress. She holds an LCSW credential and practices in Texas, providing therapy in English.
Clients can expect a pragmatic therapist who balances clear feedback with empathy, guiding them through treatment approaches aimed at symptom relief, emotional regulation, and improved functioning. Christine accepts people seeking support for grief, intimacy and relationship difficulties, caregiving stress, chronic health-related challenges, and other complicated life transitions.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Healing
Christine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic coping patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy attends specifically to the impact of adverse experiences, helping clients process traumatic memories and lessen their ongoing influence on emotions and relationships.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and personal preferences to determine whether CBT, trauma-focused work, or a combination is most helpful, and will adjust strategies over time based on progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling and for people who prefer different communication styles. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care while working toward meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English