About Christina
Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience based in Wisconsin. She helps people build confidence, manage strong emotions, and face difficult moments with more agency. Christina draws on years in crisis services, corrections, community programs, and independent practice to shape practical, down-to-earth care.
She trained in counseling with a Master of Science in Education-Counseling and holds a Bachelor of Sociology. Christina uses Motivational Interviewing to help clients find personal reasons for change.
How Christina works
She also brings elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness into sessions to teach skills for emotion regulation and stress reduction. Her work often focuses on anxiety, depression, stress, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with grief, intimacy-related issues, body image, sleep and eating problems, and ADHD.
Christina addresses career stress, caregiver strain, and challenges that come with chronic illness or aging. Sessions are described as comforting, supportive, and encouraging. She aims to help clients become more assertive and to build tools they can use day to day.
Expect a collaborative tone that mixes practical strategies with emotion-focused skill building. Christina offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing work. People who prefer straightforward guidance, skill practice, and motivational coaching tend to find her approach useful.
Christina lists 5 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
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Online approaches and how they help
Christina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as core tools. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication in relationships.She approaches finding the right method as a team effort. The therapist listens to goals, symptoms, and daily routines, then suggests strategies to try. Over a few sessions they review what works and adjust direction so the plan fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow in-depth conversations and skill practice by sight and sound. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick updates, coaching between sessions, or when typed communication feels easier. These options aim to make therapy more flexible so people can fit sessions into busy lives.
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