About Christine
Christine Penwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Tennessee. She brings seven years of experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and trauma. Christine uses a warm, empathetic style and listens first to understand each person's needs.
She follows a client-centered way of working that puts the person’s goals and voice at the center. In sessions she pays attention to attachment patterns and practical thinking habits that shape emotions and behavior.
Background and approach
She offers concrete tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy when those fit the situation. Christine has worked across multiple states and has particular experience with families affected by neurodiversity and adoption and foster care concerns.
That background informs how she sees trauma, dissociation, and attachment issues, and she brings that understanding into conversations about recovery and growth. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She helps people map problems, try small changes, and track progress over time.
Sessions often focus on improving communication, coping with life changes, and building self-esteem. Christine also supports practical topics such as career coaching, ADHD-related challenges, and parenting strategies. She uses motivational interviewing techniques to help people find their own reasons to change.
The goal is useful, manageable steps rather than quick fixes.
How attachment and practical skills translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect now. Online sessions with this focus explore patterns of closeness, trust, and safety and work toward clearer communication and steadier bonds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and habits into small parts. In teletherapy CBT is often used to spot thinking patterns, test them between sessions, and practice new behaviors in daily life. Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist and client talk together about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaboration helps choose whether more attachment work, CBT skills, or a blend will be tried and adjusted over time. Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let the therapist and client read body language and have a more face-to-face feel. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching between sessions, and people who prefer typing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English