About Christopher
Christopher Massey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth care. He draws on five years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. He works with people who have faced trauma, abuse, or neglect and those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns.
Christopher keeps sessions simple and direct. He listens first, then helps clients set clear, achievable goals. Sessions typically include learning coping skills, practicing new habits, and checking progress together.
Background and approach
His approach blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and client-centered care. That mix is used to address how early relationships affect current patterns and to build practical strategies for daily life. He also uses mindfulness and dialectical behavior ideas to help with emotional regulation and stress management.
Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental style that emphasizes strengths. Christopher avoids labels and focuses on what a person wants to change. He supports people in creating a step-by-step plan and adjusts that plan as progress is made.
Sessions are offered through video, phone, chat, and text messaging, which lets people choose what fits their schedule. Christopher works from Missouri and offers services in English, and he accepts international clients. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on availability.
The first meetings focus on what matters most to the client and practical next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Christopher helps people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating that reduce conflict and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical ways to change them, which can help with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christopher collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. Together they set clear goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when video bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and options when someone prefers writing instead of speaking.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward without long travel or schedule shifts. Licensed professionals use the approach that best suits the person’s goals and day-to-day routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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