About Christina
Christina Rydeen is a licensed counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, anger, and low self-esteem. She has 14 years of experience and works from Missouri as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). She creates a calm space where clients can talk honestly about thoughts and feelings.
Sessions are intended to be nonjudgmental and practical, with room to name what’s hard and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Christina aims to make the first steps feel doable rather than overwhelming. Christina uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also uses client-centered listening to help people feel heard and understood. Her work includes helping people manage mood challenges such as depression, bipolar concerns, and grief. She also supports those facing trauma, caregiving strain, chronic pain or illness, and life transitions like divorce or midlife shifts.
ADHD is one of the areas she lists among her focuses. Practical skills are often part of sessions - building routines, improving communication, and finding small steps toward goals. Christina pays attention to relationships, attachment patterns, body image, and feelings of shame or isolation when these shape daily life.
She encourages steady progress over quick fixes.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Christina uses practical methods in online sessions to help people manage day-to-day struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, mood, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches skills to notice difficult thoughts and stay connected to what matters while taking action toward goals.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust them over time so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single technique.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier and let people pick formats that fit their day. Video works well for a traditional face-to-face feel. Phone sessions are helpful when internet bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer short, flexible check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These choices let people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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