About Christina
Christina Cartagena is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. Christina also supports those facing relationship or family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges with intimacy.
Christina uses straightforward, collaborative care. She focuses on helping clients understand patterns, manage strong emotions, and build practical coping skills. Sessions aim to be conversational and goal-focused so people leave with ideas they can use right away.
How Christina works
Her work draws on approaches that center relationships and emotions while also teaching concrete skills. That means exploring attachment patterns and emotional responses alongside strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Christina adapts the mix depending on what each person needs most.
People bring many common concerns to sessions, including panic attacks, sleep and eating issues, caregiver stress, money worries, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She also helps with communication problems, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and recovery from domestic violence. Christina has three years of clinical experience as an LPC in South Carolina.
She offers sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy fees vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Christina lists 10 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
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect how people relate today. It helps uncover patterns that influence trust, closeness, and reactions during conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going. It offers concrete tools to manage panic attacks, worry, and mood changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions and how they shape relationship interactions; it can help people understand and name feelings and work toward more supported emotional connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful when visual cues matter, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick updates or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping focus on the therapeutic goals.
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