About Christie
Dr. Christie Taylor helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. She writes plainly and listens first to understand what a person hopes to change.
With three decades of experience, she focuses on practical steps that move daily life forward. Her approach centers on clarifying thoughts and feelings that brought someone into counseling. She pays attention to how the past affects the present and looks for ways to set old patterns aside.
Background and approach
Sessions can include talk, skill practice, and problem-solving so people can try different ways of handling hard moments. Dr. Taylor holds a Doctor of Education degree and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC.
She has led mental health and addiction programs in both public and personal settings and has worked across levels of care from inpatient to outpatient services. She has also served as a clinical director and nonprofit CEO for addiction treatment programs, and helped develop an addiction and chronic pain program in Houston.
In addition, she has taught mental health and addiction counseling courses for about 20 years at several universities. Her background includes many years working with children and a particular interest in teens affected by parental alcoholism and addiction. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to walk alongside people as they make changes that matter in everyday life.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now. It focuses on building safer, steadier connections and can help with intimacy, trust, and family of origin issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and uses empathic listening to help someone find their own goals and solutions; it suits people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to figure things out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills development. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means plans can change as progress is made or new issues emerge. Online therapy offers real flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text-based messaging lets clients send updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady pace of support.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English