About Christine
Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of practice in Georgia. She brings practical, conversational care to sessions and often uses goal-focused work to help people move forward. Christine keeps therapy grounded and down-to-earth, with a touch of humor and straightforward feedback.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship issues. She also supports people navigating identity and cultural shifts, including those in the LGBTQIA+ community and people leaving conservative religious backgrounds.
Background and approach
Christine has experience with autism spectrum presentations and with people exploring body positivity and self-esteem. Christine favors a collaborative, client-directed style. She helps clients set clear goals and designs simple between-session steps to test new skills.
If a suggested exercise doesn’t get done, she treats that as useful information rather than failure and adjusts plans together. Her work is practical and flexible. She is comfortable discussing kink and BDSM culture and supporting people in ethically non-monogamous relationships.
She also helps parents and caregivers manage stress, and she can address complex histories such as adoption, attachment, or abandonment concerns. Outside of her clinical role she brings a playful curiosity to life. Christine enjoys science fiction, art-making, board games, and small creative projects.
That same curiosity shows up in sessions as a willingness to try different strategies until something fits.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Christine uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It can help people who are stuck deciding what matters or how to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will work with each client to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what is or isn’t working and adjusts plans so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video suits deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family, and travel and make it easier to keep momentum when schedules are busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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