About Christianne
Christianne Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of clinical experience based in Wisconsin. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and challenges such as grief, trauma, and self-esteem. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find workable steps forward.
She begins by listening to the whole situation and asking what matters most right now. Sessions focus on practical skills and clear goals.
Background and approach
Christianne mixes talk and active exercises so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. Christianne uses several evidence-informed approaches to shape treatment. She draws on cognitive behavioral work to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build committed action.
Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns keep repeating. Her background includes long-term clinical practice with a wide variety of concerns, including ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and complex grief. Her experience supports work on life transitions, career-related stress, and parenting challenges.
Sessions can involve skills for emotion regulation, communication practice, and planning realistic next steps. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Christianne frames therapy as a collaborative process that centers each person’s priorities.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Christianne commonly blends cognitive behavioral techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to create clear, practical steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches skills to test and change them, which is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep difficulties. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and committed action, helping people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward what matters most. Attachment-based ideas are also part of her approach when relationship patterns are central. That work looks at how early relationship patterns shape reactions today and uses exercises to shift how people connect and communicate. Together these approaches support work on family dynamics, communication problems, and grief in a collaborative way. Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress happens. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists observe body language and run interactive exercises. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English