About Christina
Christina Teel-Gonzales is a licensed professional counselor with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, career questions, and the challenges that come with life changes. She also supports people navigating ADHD-related concerns and relationship or parenting stress.
Christina practices online and brings a straightforward, practical style to sessions. She uses everyday language to help clients notice patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making daily life feel more manageable rather than overwhelming. Her training includes a master's degree in Counseling and Guidance from Texas State University and a bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Texas. That blend of counseling and workplace learning informs her focus on career and life-role concerns.
Over nearly three decades she has worked with people facing a wide range of worries, including caregiver stress, grief and end-of-life issues, immigration concerns, impulsivity, and feelings of isolation. Christina also addresses family of origin issues, commitment concerns, and the emotional impacts of illness. Clients can expect a mix of client-centered conversation, practical problem-solving, and skills they can try between sessions.
Christina prefers online work and conducts sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She welcomes people in Texas and beyond who are looking for steady, experienced support.
Approaches and what online sessions look like
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps the client name goals and priorities. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or manage stress. CBT often includes practical exercises to practice between meetings.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and immediate steps forward. Sessions tend to be goal-directed and short-term, identifying what works now and expanding those strategies to solve current problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods. That collaborative planning means the plan can change as the client learns what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and keep continuity when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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