About Christi
Christi Nelson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing career shifts, parenting strain, relationship trouble, and major life changes. Christi brings 19 years of experience in mental health and addiction work to her practice.
Her manner is warm and straightforward. Sessions are casual but focused. She listens without judgment and treats people with respect and compassion.
Background and approach
The goal is practical progress rather than labels. Christi uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation and managing impulses. Client-centered and existential approaches create space for self-reflection and personal meaning. In practical terms, she works with people on skills they can use day to day.
That might include coping tools for anxiety, plans for managing substance use, or strategies to handle caregiver stress and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues like abandonment, codependency, isolation, and family of origin patterns. Christi draws on nearly two decades of practice in Texas to guide the work.
She helps people set clear goals and checks progress as treatment continues. Her steady, collaborative style aims to help people feel more capable and less stuck.
Approaches that inform online therapy
Christi commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them, then trying different actions to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. DBT provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how someone copes with strong feelings.She also uses client-centered and existential ideas to make sessions collaborative and reflective. That means the therapist and client decide together which methods fit best. Goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs shape the plan rather than a fixed format.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different rhythms of life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English