About Christine
Christine Paulsen is a licensed clinical social worker with four years of practice in California. She focuses on stress and anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and issues tied to relationships and intimacy. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addictions, and LGBT-related concerns.
Christine approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She adapts conversations and plans to match each person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
Christine aims to help people identify manageable steps and build skills they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on improving communication, handling strong emotions, and managing life changes. She also addresses body image, shame, isolation, and difficulties related to family of origin. For people exploring kink or alternative sex culture, she offers a nonjudgmental space to talk through questions and concerns.
Christine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the present problem and the person’s goals. She supports clients navigating career stress, parenting strain, and complicated feelings like jealousy or emptiness. The goal is steady progress, not rapid fixes.
People who prefer straightforward talk and practical tools may find her approach useful. She meets people where they are and helps them plan doable next steps. Sessions can include skill-building, emotion regulation strategies, and focused conversation about life patterns.
How evidence-based techniques fit into online therapy
Christine uses a few straightforward, evidence-based techniques to guide sessions. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Skills-based strategies target emotion regulation and stress management, teaching concrete steps people can use when they feel overwhelmed.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your goals and preferences, try options that match your needs, and adjust the plan over time. This collaborative process helps find what actually fits your life and produces useful change.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people use brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or get support without scheduling a full call. These options increase flexibility and help keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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