About Christa
Christa Martin is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and mood challenges. She works with individuals who are managing relationship strain, grief, parenting pressures, career stress, and life changes. Christa brings seven years of experience to sessions and practices in Mississippi.
Christa favors clear, practical steps in therapy. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
She also uses EMDR for processing traumatic memories and mindfulness to build steadiness when emotions run high. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Sessions often mix short-term problem solving with deeper emotional work.
She helps clients set concrete goals, try new coping skills between meetings, and check progress over time. Christa has worked with veterans and first responders and understands pressures tied to those roles. She also addresses financial stress, postpartum concerns, panic, and social anxiety among other issues listed in her specialties.
People can expect straightforward conversation and practical homework when it fits their goals. Christa explains techniques in plain language and adjusts pace to each person's needs. Her aim is to help clients build skills that make everyday life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Christa often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood, and then practicing clearer thinking and new coping strategies. EMDR helps people process and reduce the emotional charge of traumatic memories through a guided sequence of attention and reflection.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process helps match techniques to a person's comfort level and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available, live chat can serve as a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging lets people send updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English