About Christa
Christa McCoy is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota with 21 years of experience. She trained in social work at the University of St. Thomas and St.
Catherine University after studying psychology at the University of Minnesota. Christa has a background as a school social worker offering individual and group support, crisis intervention, and family education and advocacy. Christa takes a strengths-based, healing-centered approach.
She focuses on practical steps people can take and on building clear, achievable goals.
How Christa works
Sessions center the person’s culture, spirituality, and sense of civic life when those things matter to the client. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include body image, postpartum depression, sexual assault and abuse, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses shame, guilt, and issues tied to prejudice and discrimination. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings and make concrete plans. Work with her often includes identifying strengths, naming problems, and practicing skills for daily life.
The overall goal is to empower clients to move toward healing and clearer direction. Christa blends attachment-based thinking, client-centered attention, cognitive behavioral tools, existential questions, and mindfulness practices to match what each person needs. She brings lived experience from school-based practice to help people navigate stress, motivation challenges, and family-related concerns.
Christa lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Christa works with
The areas below are the ones Christa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice their needs and ways of connecting. This approach can be helpful for people dealing with relationship patterns, grief, or the effects of past attachment wounds. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the person’s own goals; the therapist offers nonjudgmental support and reflects what she hears so clients can find their own answers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christa will work together with each person to choose or combine approaches based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process includes checking in and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats here include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and use interactive exercises. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, processing between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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