About Christine
Christine Heikkenen-Black uses a person-centered approach with practical skills to help people handle relationship and life stresses. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado and brings nine years of counseling experience to sessions. Her work focuses on relationship and family concerns, career questions, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, addictions, and trauma.
She also helps with attachment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and difficulties like emptiness or midlife crisis.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify goals and build concrete strategies that fit daily life. Christine blends talk-based support with evidence-informed methods to address emotional pain and behavior patterns. She helps people notice thoughts and feelings, practice new ways of responding, and set manageable steps toward change.
She pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns and uses that awareness to improve connection and communication. Practical supports include skills for managing panic, social anxiety, and stress, and approaches for dealing with chronic pain, illness, or life transitions. Addiction-related concerns and recovery topics are also part of her work.
Christine adapts conversations and plans to match each person’s situation and goals. People can expect a respectful, patient, and straightforward style. The therapist listens first, then helps build a clear plan that feels realistic.
The initial step and ongoing pacing are chosen together so progress fits everyday life.
Online therapy using practical, relationship-focused approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and values, then taking committed steps that match what matters to you. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior experiments to reduce symptoms like panic and social anxiety. It works well for stress, panic attacks, and specific anxiety problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, helping people improve trust and closeness in relationships and family interactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaboration guides which methods are used and how sessions are paced so the plan fits real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English