About Christine
Christine Broadwater is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 33 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage relationship problems, parenting stress, mood concerns, and life transitions. She also works with anxiety, grief, trauma, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and motivation.
Her style is collaborative and respectful. She starts by listening to each person’s story and strengths. She treats clients as the expert on their life and helps them build practical steps forward.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses straightforward tools to address thinking patterns, emotions, and behavior. Techniques come from approaches that include cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior skills, and client-centered listening. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are woven in when they fit the client's goals.
Therapy may include short-term problem solving or longer work on recurring issues. Christine helps people set realistic goals and practices that can be used between sessions. She aims to make change feel doable, not overwhelming.
Her background includes support for people facing family of origin concerns, caregiving stress, postpartum and mood disorders, and multicultural issues. She also has experience with adoption and foster care topics and with people coping with major life adjustments.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following what matters most to the individual. It helps people clarify goals and feel understood before trying skills or strategies.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It offers concrete exercises to test and change unhelpful thoughts and to build healthier routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These tools are useful when emotions feel intense or relationships are strained.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying different strategies and adjusting over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video allows a full session similar to an office visit, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging support brief check-ins and between-session contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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