About Christina
Christina DeSantis helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, mood disorders, and life changes. Christina is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, practicing in Massachusetts.
She approaches therapy in a straightforward, down-to-earth way. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings. Christina uses familiar tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy depending on each person’s needs.
How Christina works
Christina works with people who are coping with chronic pain, illness, or disability and those struggling with codependency, substance use, or compassion fatigue. She helps people facing guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, or questions about life purpose and midlife transition. Her style is open and honest.
She aims to be real and compassionate while offering clear feedback. Christina says she values empathy and a non-judgmental stance and asks for honesty in return to make progress together. With eleven years in clinical work and a master's degree in social work, Christina draws on a broad background in human services and therapy.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and focuses on matching methods to what will actually help each person move forward.
Christina lists 3 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms and focuses on practical skills and small experiments to reduce distress.Motivational Interviewing centers on a person's own reasons for change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to build motivation for tackling addictions, substance use, or lifestyle shifts.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks at strengths and past successes to set brief, concrete goals. It helps people stabilize during life changes and find small steps that lead to visible improvement.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christina will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls can replicate an in-person meeting, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging make it easy to check in between sessions. These formats help people keep momentum, fit therapy around work or caregiving, and use different ways to communicate what feels most comfortable.
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