About Christina
Christina Zivec brings a practical, strengths-based approach to therapy. She is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 15 years of professional experience. Christina writes simply and directly to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She focuses on clear goals and small, doable steps toward change. Christina focuses on stress and anxiety and on feelings of depression. She helps people who are navigating LGBT concerns, intimacy issues, trouble concentrating, and memory worries.
Background and approach
Communication struggles, isolation and social anxiety also appear often in her work. In sessions she treats the person as the expert on their own story. She helps clients notice their strengths and apply those strengths to real-life problems.
Conversations tend to be direct, practical, and supportive so progress can be measured and adjusted. Christina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address attention and mood concerns and to improve relationships and daily functioning. She works with people to build clearer routines, improve focus, and reduce overwhelming worry.
The emphasis is on skills that can be used between sessions. She encourages anyone feeling stuck to take a small step toward help. Christina aims to empower clients, reduce isolation, and create plans that fit real life.
Her style is steady, respectful, and goal-oriented.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical, measurable change. One common approach helps people manage anxiety and stress by teaching skills for slowing down worry, testing feared predictions, and building steady routines to reduce daily overwhelm. Another approach targets attention and mood by establishing clearer habits, structured planning, and brief exercises to improve concentration and memory in everyday tasks.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Christina works with each person to pick or adapt methods based on goals, needs, and personal preferences. She checks progress regularly and adjusts strategies if something is not working, so you can see what helps and what needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video lets you have a full conversation when you have time and bandwidth. Phone sessions are a good option when you want a focused check-in without video. Chat and text sessions work well for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English