About Christina
Christina Chykirda is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut. She brings ten years of mental health experience and a background in customer service to the room. Christina aims to make clients feel heard and supported as they work toward clearer goals and better day-to-day functioning.
Christina meets people where they are and takes a practical approach. She listens first, then helps set small, doable goals. Sessions often include education about symptoms and disorders so clients better understand what they are facing.
Background and approach
Homework and skill practice are used between meetings to build new habits. Her experience spans inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings. She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, substance use, eating issues, bipolar disorder, grief, and ADHD.
This breadth gives her a working knowledge of how difficulties can overlap and affect daily life. Christina describes her style as empathic, nonjudgmental, and interactive. She encourages clients to face difficult emotions while reducing reliance on unhealthy coping strategies.
Christina uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person rather than a single technique. Clients can expect a collaborative process focused on practical skills, increased awareness, and gradual change. Christina emphasizes active work in and between sessions to create lasting shifts in thinking and behavior.
Approaches and online options that support change
Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real life; this approach is practical and helps with anxiety, depression, and habits like substance use or disordered eating. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal communication when emotions run high.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christina works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She reviews progress together and adjusts the plan so techniques fit the client's day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations for skill teaching and deeper work. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a problem. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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