About Christina
Christina Chykirda is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Connecticut who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Christina aims to create a straightforward, empathic space where clients feel heard and guided toward their goals.
Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. She uses homework and skill practice so progress continues outside the session.
Background and approach
Christina emphasizes education about symptoms and coping strategies so clients gain clearer insight into their patterns and choices. Christina brings a decade of experience in mental health and more than 15 years in customer service. Her background spans inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings.
This variety has exposed her to many presentations, including mood disorders, trauma, substance issues, eating-related concerns, and complex co-occurring problems. In sessions she works in an empathic, nonjudgmental way while also offering gentle challenge when change requires confronting hard emotions. She blends client-centered listening with structured techniques to teach new behaviors and reduce unhelpful patterns.
Clients can expect both support and clear, actionable steps. Christina offers care in English and provides therapy via several online formats. She works with people facing relationship concerns, grief, self-esteem struggles, ADHD-related challenges, and other stressors who want a practical plan and steady encouragement.
How Christina’s Methods Work Online
Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered listening to address anxiety, mood concerns, trauma responses, and unhealthy coping habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Christina listens to each person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggests techniques to try. Over time she adjusts the plan based on what helps most, so therapy becomes more tailored and effective for each person.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill modeling and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These options help people keep momentum and access care from varied schedules and locations.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English