About Christopher
Christopher Thrift is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Mississippi with eight years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with addiction, mood concerns, anxiety, and life transitions. He creates a straightforward, supportive space where clients can talk through hard topics without judgment.
He takes a practical approach in sessions. Christopher listens first to understand what is most pressing. Then he and the client set small, doable goals to make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions include talk, problem-solving, and tools people can use between meetings. Christopher draws on client-centered therapy to prioritize each person’s goals and pace. He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to stress, low mood, or unhealthy habits.
These approaches are applied to concerns like depression, bipolar symptoms, anxiety, obsessive habits, and addiction-related struggles. He also supports people coping with relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, and career uncertainty. Common topics include communication problems, divorce or separation, fatherhood issues, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Christopher aims to help clients find clearer direction and better daily routines. Therapy with him is collaborative and practical. He helps people learn skills for anger management, sleep problems, and relapse prevention for substance or process addictions.
For someone wanting steady, nonjudgmental support while they make changes, Christopher offers focused, goal-oriented sessions.
How Christopher’s Approaches Work Online
Christopher uses client-centered therapy to meet each person where they are. That means sessions focus on the client’s priorities, and he creates space to hear what matters most before proposing next steps. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a steady place to sort through feelings.He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and habits. CBT offers simple, teachable strategies for changing unhelpful thinking, improving sleep, managing anxiety, and reducing compulsive behaviors. These tools translate well to remote sessions through discussion and short homework exercises.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Christopher will work with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and pace. That plan can change over time as relief grows or new challenges appear.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging works for brief check-ins, coping reminders, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and keep steady momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English