About Christine
Christine "Chris" Coleman-Sandwell uses a practical, person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She is a licensed professional counselor - LPC - with 25 years of experience working with adults on life transitions and difficult emotions. Chris helps people facing midlife change, workplace stress, and separation or divorce.
She also supports those coping with caregiver strain, blended family problems, and the emotional fallout from trauma or grief.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on women's issues, sexuality, and rebuilding self-esteem. Sessions emphasize listening and collaboration. She asks questions that help clients spot what matters most and find workable next steps.
Conversations focus on clear goals and small changes that fit each person's life. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that put the person's perspective first. She also uses motivational interviewing to build readiness for change and solution-focused techniques to create concrete plans.
Those methods help with things like sleep problems, anger, addiction concerns, and managing bipolar symptoms alongside everyday stressors. Over her career she has guided people through compassion fatigue, career uncertainty, and struggles with intimacy or commitment. Chris balances straightforward guidance with empathy to keep the work grounded and doable.
She helps people find tools to cope now and build skills for the future.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy places the person's needs and perspective at the center of sessions, emphasizing empathetic listening and supporting the client's own pace of change. This approach is helpful for people coping with grief, self-esteem struggles, and relationship stress.Motivational interviewing focuses on building motivation and resolving mixed feelings about change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to help people clarify goals and commit to steps that feel achievable, which is useful for addiction concerns, lifestyle changes, and coping with caregiver strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select and adapt methods based on their goals, comfort level, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow fuller interaction and nonverbal cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and choose the format that feels most manageable.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can Chris help with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are supported in therapy?
What session formats are available online?
How does pricing and payment work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English