About Christyn
Christyn Jaap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with five years of counseling experience. She greets people with a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps you can use right away. She wants clients to feel heard and to notice small changes that add up over time.
Christyn draws on time spent in schools as a teacher, coach, and counselor. That background shaped how she talks with younger clients and adults alike.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and builds on what already works in a person’s life. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth rather than overly clinical. In sessions she addresses relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, stress, and ADHD.
She also helps with parenting strain, career decisions, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include impulsivity, commitment and control issues, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, panic, and personality-related struggles. Christyn uses a mix of methods to match what each person needs.
She uses client-centered conversation to follow the client’s lead and make space for what matters most. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot patterns that keep problems going and to try small experiments that can change them. Her work emphasizes collaboration and practical goals.
She invites people to name one change they want and then tries steps that can move them toward it. The tone is supportive, straightforward, and focused on building coping skills and clearer connections with others.
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Christyn commonly blends client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the client’s priorities so the person feels understood and in charge of goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses small experiments to change patterns that keep problems going.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The aim is to choose tools that fit the client’s life and feel usable between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction helps the work, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These choices give flexibility for different days, energy levels, or practical needs while keeping the focus on steady, usable progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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