About Christina
Christina Bachenberg greets people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She writes with compassion and focuses on helping clients reduce stress, manage anxiety, and regain confidence. Christina holds MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, practicing in Maryland with 12 years of experience.
In sessions she listens first and adapts to each person's needs. Conversations are practical and solution-minded. She helps people set small goals, practice new ways of coping, and notice changes as they happen.
Background and approach
Christina blends several approaches to meet everyday problems. She uses client-centered work to build a trusting relationship and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to name and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused ideas help when navigation of strong feelings is needed.
Common concerns she addresses include stress, depression, low self-esteem, family conflict, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include body image, communication problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity, obsessions and compulsions, panic attacks, social anxiety, and trichotillomania. People who choose her can expect a calm, direct style that encourages practical steps and steady progress.
Christina tailors plans to each person and checks in about what is working. She aims to make therapy useful and doable alongside daily life.
Approaches for online work and everyday challenges
Christina commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building a respectful relationship so clients can set their own pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative decision. During early sessions she will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. The plan can change as progress is reviewed and new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, homework exchanges, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions. These options aim to make regular therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English