About Christina
Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Wisconsin with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people build confidence and handle hard situations. Her background includes work in crisis services, corrections, independent practice, and community settings.
Christina earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a Master of Science in Education - Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin. She brings varied clinical experience to sessions and draws on practical tools to help people cope.
Background and approach
Her practice combines straightforward skill-building with supportive conversation. She often uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons for change and to strengthen motivation. Christina also works with ideas from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions and stay present.
Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps that add up to meaningful progress. Clients come for help with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep or eating concerns, career questions, ADHD, and other life challenges. Christina also addresses issues like body image, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and chronic health challenges.
Her style is described as comforting, supportive, and encouraging. She aims to create a space where people can talk honestly, try new coping strategies, and practice skills between sessions. Christina works collaboratively to set goals and track change over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and offers practical exercises for issues like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT tools can be useful for intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and co-occurring challenges. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help people stay present and reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which skills and strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have longer sessions with visual connection. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep consistent work toward goals while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English