About Christina
Christina Turner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama who focuses on practical, compassionate help for everyday struggles. She offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and ADHD. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things easier and more useful.
Christina creates a calm space where people can say what they feel without judgment. She listens first, then helps identify small, doable steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and grounded in what matters right now to each person. Her clinical experience includes five years of counseling with a range of concerns from trauma and self-esteem to career stress and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with gender identity concerns and those who identify as LGBTQ.
Christina brings attention to how past attachment experiences and abandonment issues show up in present life. She uses several therapeutic styles that focus on how thoughts, emotions, and behavior interact. Christina combines client-centered listening with skills-based work that helps manage intense feelings and improve everyday functioning.
Mindfulness and existential perspectives help clients connect with values and purpose when life feels uncertain. Christina works with people who want clear tools alongside respectful listening. She encourages questions and aims to make therapy feel like a practical partnership.
If someone is ready to try talking through challenges and testing new ways of coping, she offers that process in a steady, nonjudgmental way.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship where a person can speak openly. It helps people who need space to sort feelings and find their own answers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christina will work together with each person to try strategies, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to focus on immediate concerns and build long-term skills.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving options for different needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching practical exercises. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, frequent exchanges and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using evidence-based techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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