About Christie
Christie Carol Spahr is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 26 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Christie focuses on practical steps that help someone feel steadier and more like themselves again.
She emphasizes getting to know who you are and practicing self-compassion. Sessions often include talking through painful experiences, building tolerance for strong feelings, and working toward more trust and confidence.
How Christie works
Christie uses a human-centered style that values the client's lived story and personal goals. Her approach blends humanistic, existential, person-centered, motivational, narrative, and spoken-word ideas. That mix is aimed at creating an open-hearted, open-minded space where emotions and thoughts can be shared without judgment.
Conversations focus on what matters to the client and on small shifts that add up over time. Christie trained with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Oregon and later earned a Master of Arts in Psychology with a specialty in marriage and family therapy.
Her varied background includes time in sports marketing and studies of Indigenous cultures, which inform her broad perspective on life and meaning. Outside of work she is a lifelong runner who has completed marathons around the world. That experience shapes her belief in persistence and honest self-reflection.
She welcomes people who are ready to take a first step toward a more fulfilling life.
What Christie works with
The areas below are the ones Christie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches for online therapy and practical access
Christie draws on humanistic and person-centered ideas that prioritize the client's experience and personal meaning. These approaches focus on listening, empathy, and helping people reconnect with who they are, which is useful for identity, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.She also incorporates narrative and motivational elements that help people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves and find practical reasons to make change. Narrative work looks at life events and patterns, while motivational techniques encourage small, achievable steps toward goals like reducing anxiety or improving communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christie will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or combine approaches that fit. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and pacing.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can fit into a busy day or provide ongoing support between sessions. These options let people access licensed professionals from different locations and choose what fits their schedule and comfort.
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