About Christina
Christina Johnson is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical, evidence-informed therapy for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, and depression. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable. Christina acknowledges that deciding to seek help takes courage and she respects each person's strengths and story.
With 14 years of experience in Pennsylvania, Christina helps people work through family conflict, communication problems, and the fallout from past abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with attachment concerns, caregiver stress, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. Her work includes addressing impulsivity, jealousy, and post-traumatic stress reactions. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical skills.
She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try small changes that can make daily life easier. Conversation, problem-solving, and gradual steps toward different responses are common parts of her approach. Christina values a collaborative process.
She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their own life and uses her experience to offer ideas, tools, and feedback. Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people know what is changing and what still needs work. People who want straightforward, problem-focused help may find her style helpful.
She works by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit sessions into busy schedules and varied needs.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Christina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and coping strategies. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns of thinking and trying different, more helpful responses; this helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Another approach concentrates on processing past hurt and reducing the hold of traumatic memories through gradual, paced work that teaches people to manage strong reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to set goals, try methods that match their needs, and adjust the plan over time based on what is helpful and what is not. The therapist and client review progress and change direction when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, live chat is handy for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options can make therapy easier to schedule around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Post-traumatic stress
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English