About Christina
Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She is an LPCC licensed clinician in Minnesota with 11 years of professional experience. Crissy focuses on listening carefully, helping people name what feels wrong, and finding realistic next steps that fit daily life.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help with patterns of anxious or depressive thinking. Mindfulness practices are used to help people notice their reactions and make different choices in the moment.
Background and approach
Emotionally-focused ideas help when the problem is about closeness, trust, or connection. Crissy supports people coping with trauma, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She also helps with stress, anger, low self-esteem, parenting strain, sleep disruption, and life transitions.
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, bipolar concerns, multicultural issues, and veteran and first responder stress. Her work is practical and straightforward. Sessions tend to include talking, skill-building, and experiments to try between meetings.
She believes clients bring strengths and that therapy is a collaborative process toward clearer goals. Crissy has experience working with Native American communities and with adults and elders. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and aims to help people take manageable steps toward feeling better.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection while following the client's pace and goals; online sessions use that same collaborative tone to set goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well in remote sessions with worksheets, homework, and brief in-session skill practice. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions that drive relationship patterns and then try new ways of responding to deepen connection and reduce reactivity.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together the client and therapist will choose an approach or mix of approaches and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English