About Christina
Christina "Chrissy" Senior helps people who are carrying heavy stress, anxiety, low mood, or the fallout from trauma and relationship strain. She is Christina Senior, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with ten years of experience. She speaks English and works with adults and adolescents on problems like addiction, grief, eating concerns, and bipolar symptoms.
Chrissy draws on straightforward, practical methods so sessions focus on what matters most to the client.
How Christina works
She uses a person-centered stance that puts the client's goals first. She also brings solution-focused tools to break problems into manageable steps and build momentum. Her background includes work in hospitals, residential treatment settings, nonprofit programs, and crisis centers.
She has served as a sexual assault and domestic violence advocate and worked as a case manager in the foster care system. That experience informs her approach to complex family problems and adoption- or foster-related stresses.
In her current role Chrissy helps direct clinical care at a behavioral health hospital and performs thorough mental health assessments for people facing severe anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, trauma, and mood dysregulation. Those duties shape how she organizes assessment and safety planning when needed. In sessions she balances compassionate listening with practical skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
The work aims to reduce distress, improve coping, and help clients make steady changes that fit their lives.
Christina lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Christina works with
The areas below are the ones Christina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's agenda and creates a supportive space to talk and make choices. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping the person set and pursue their own goals, which is useful for motivation and confidence building.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice new skills. CBT is practical and goal oriented, and it is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood disorders to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust methods over time based on what helps most. Clients help shape which skills and approaches are emphasized.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice and assessment. Phone sessions can work well when video is not possible or when audio alone fits a schedule. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, written exercises, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and different tech situations.
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