About Christina
Christina Davila uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and problems with motivation and anger. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with three years of professional experience. Christina emphasizes strengths and practical steps so people can move toward a more stable daily life.
She works with adults and adolescents on issues like self-esteem, confidence, grief, and changes in work or family roles.
Background and approach
Christina also supports people facing mood disorders, bipolar challenges, and struggles with sleep or eating. She pays attention to how life events and identity shape coping strategies and goals. Her sessions focus on clear, actionable work.
Christina draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to boost awareness and strengthen commitment to change. Christina frames therapy as a partnership.
She listens first, then helps set short-term goals that fit each person’s daily life. She encourages small experiments that build confidence between sessions. Practical concerns are part of the plan.
Christina can help with career stress, parenting strain, trauma recovery, and compassion fatigue from high-stress jobs. Her style is direct and empathetic, aiming for steady progress rather than quick fixes. People looking for therapy in Texas can expect straightforward, goal-focused sessions that respect their experience and priorities.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person’s goals and choices, so sessions begin by hearing the story and priorities. This approach helps shape what therapy focuses on and works well for issues like confidence, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and change behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are useful for impulsivity, anger, and mood regulation challenges.
Christina sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to each person’s needs and tries different techniques to find what fits best. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to keep or adjust as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style reminders, or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English