About Cristina
Cristina Juisti is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience in community mental health in Pennsylvania. She works with adults and older adults, focusing on depression, mood disorders, anxiety, and the practical ways day-to-day life can feel overwhelming. Her tone is calm and direct, aimed at helping people find small, usable steps toward more hope and ease.
Cristina builds sessions around what each person brings. She listens without judgment and uses simple tools to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on identifying choices, changing unhelpful thinking, and strengthening coping skills that fit real life. Her background includes long-term work with adults and older adults in the Greater Philadelphia area. That experience informs an approach that values steady progress and realistic problem solving.
Cristina leans on methods that encourage active participation and clear goals. In a typical session she helps people break big problems into smaller tasks. She offers short practical exercises and collaborative planning to manage stress, cope with life changes, and address relationship or self-image concerns.
The aim is to leave each session with at least one manageable step to try. Cristina welcomes conversations about mood, trauma, self-esteem, and transitions such as divorce or caregiving challenges. She also supports people navigating pregnancy and childbirth related concerns, aging questions, and social anxiety.
All work is presented in plain language and paced to match individual needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different ways of thinking and acting. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood problems by creating small experiments and homework tasks.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. This approach aims to make people feel heard and respected while they work through difficult feelings or life changes.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore readiness for change. It helps clarify personal goals and builds momentum for choices like managing stress or improving self-care.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Cristina works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans evolve as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to use tools that suit daily routines.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English