About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Minnesota with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common, painful problems like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Christine meets people where they are and aims to help them regain energy and direction in life.
She emphasizes a whole-person view that includes emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Christine helps clients identify strengths they already have and build a small set of tools to manage difficult feelings and situations.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing chronic pain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and issues tied to aging or family-of-origin patterns. Christine pays attention to how past experiences shape present reactions.
Therapeutic approaches used include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, existential reflection, and EMDR. These approaches are chosen to match the problem at hand and the person's preferences. Sessions aim to be clear, direct, and grounded in daily life.
People who come to Christine can expect a calm, purposeful pace. She combines listening with practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve coping. The goal is steady progress that fits each person's life and values.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Christine uses client-centered work to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. This approach means listening closely, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you find your own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps break down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small steps you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety or depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and shifting emotional responses to improve how people relate to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Christine will review your goals and try methods that match your situation. Together you will decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a full session is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter contact fits your day. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other time constraints while keeping focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English