About Christina
Christina Garry is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 20 years of experience. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, sleep problems, anger, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Christina also supports those facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and issues related to aging and isolation.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats each person with respect and sensitivity and believes clients know their own lives best.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what feels most useful for each person, and Christina follows the client's lead while offering structured tools when needed. Christina uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most to the client. She combines that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical strategies that change feelings and behavior.
Together these approaches aim to make daily life more manageable. In sessions she focuses on small, doable steps that fit into a person's routine. That might mean practicing new communication skills, changing sleep habits, or trying short behavioral experiments between meetings.
The work is paced to the client's comfort level. People come to Christina for help coping with life changes, improving self-esteem, dealing with trauma or abuse, and navigating workplace or communication problems. She frames therapy as support and coaching, helping clients move toward the life they want.
How Christina’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. In online sessions this looks like giving space to tell your story, helping you clarify goals, and adjusting each meeting to what you bring that day. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In remote work CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, or behavioral experiments to try between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or shift mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christina will discuss your goals and preferences and then recommend next steps. That collaboration helps decide whether more listening, more skills practice, or a mix of both will be most helpful for you.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer sessions. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, short coaching moments, or when you want a written record of ideas. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using practical approaches like CBT and client-centered listening.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Christina address?
How would she describe her approach in sessions?
How much experience does she have?
Where is Christina licensed and based?
What languages are used for sessions?
What formats are available for meetings?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English