About Christina
Christina Reed offers straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting worries, and career challenges. She writes plainly and listens first, helping clients sort what matters most. With 25 years of experience, Christina aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear.
Christina is an IL LCPC, which means she practices under Illinois clinical professional counseling rules. She frames sessions so clients can talk through immediate difficulties and long-standing concerns.
Background and approach
The focus is on practical steps that fit each person's life and values. Her work combines thoughtful listening with approaches that teach skills for everyday living. Christina draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking.
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters and act toward those goals. Emotionally-focused and client-centered methods guide how she relates in sessions. That means attention to feelings and to the client’s own pace.
Dialectical behavior strategies are added when stronger emotion regulation or distress tolerance tools are needed. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Christina helps people name problems, try small experiments, and build routines that reduce stress.
She also supports those coping with loss or midlife transitions by helping them explore purpose and next steps. Her approach is practical, calm, and respectful. Christina welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into a busy life and works with each person to find realistic, useful ways forward.
How Christina’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. Online ACT sessions usually involve noticing thoughts and trying practical experiments between meetings to build meaningful habits.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. In virtual sessions clients learn simple exercises and homework they can use during stressful moments or to change routines.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding feelings and improving how people express emotions. EFT work online often includes using the therapist as a guide to slow down strong emotions and try new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Choosing the right method is part of the process. Christina works with clients to decide whether ACT, CBT, EFT, or a mix makes the most sense based on goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift as progress happens and new priorities emerge.
Online formats make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options help people keep momentum even with busy schedules or changing routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English