About Christina
Christina "Chrissy" Senior focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, mood shifts, relationship struggles, grief, or life changes. She offers straightforward support for stress, depression, self-esteem concerns, and problems tied to addiction or trauma. Chrissy speaks plainly and aims to make sessions practical and usable for daily life.
With ten years in mental health, Chrissy has worked in hospitals, residential treatment settings, nonprofit programs, and crisis centers. She has experience as a sexual assault and domestic violence advocate and as a case manager in foster care.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she listens and responds to urgent needs. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the focus on each person’s priorities and strengths. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to help people identify small, achievable steps toward their goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used when they fit the situation, especially for mood regulation and coping skills. In sessions she emphasizes a dependable therapeutic relationship. That means clear goals, regular check-ins, and techniques that are easy to practice between meetings.
She aims to make therapy feel hopeful and relevant rather than overwhelming. Chrissy holds an LCPC credential, which is the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor designation. She practices in Illinois and conducts assessments and ongoing care for adults and adolescents facing a range of mood, trauma, and behavioral concerns.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the person and what matters most to them. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching specific, step-by-step skills to manage anxiety, mood problems, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel intense.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with the client to try methods that fit their needs and goals. Sessions can be adjusted over time based on what helps most, with a mix of conversation, skill practice, and short homework tasks as needed.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face meetings for in-depth work, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing support, quick skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility and help people connect with a licensed professional from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English