About Christina
Christina Woods is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her work also addresses trauma and abuse, as well as issues that affect self-esteem and motivation.
Christina keeps the conversation direct and respectful. She adapts her approach to each person's situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions center on practical steps and steady progress rather than abstract theories.
How Christina works
Her background includes long-term clinical practice supporting people through attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care matters, and relationship communication problems. She also works with people facing chronic illness or disability, body image distress, and caregiver stress. Christina pays attention to personality-related issues that can make daily life harder, such as avoidant, dependent, or antisocial personality patterns.
She helps people recognize unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding that feel safer and more effective. The first meetings focus on what matters most to the client. Together they set clear goals and practical steps to build confidence and reduce symptoms.
Christina supports clients through steady, manageable change and helps them choose strategies that fit their life.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change patterns and feel better day to day. One common approach she uses helps people recognize and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so anxiety and low mood become easier to manage; it emphasizes small experiments and new routines. Another approach focuses on managing trauma and abuse responses by building safety, grounding skills, and gradual processing at a pace the person can tolerate. These methods aim to reduce distress and increase practical coping skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will discuss options with each person, consider current goals and circumstances, and adapt methods as progress is made. She helps people try strategies and adjusts the plan based on what is most helpful for them.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing reflection, or when writing feels more comfortable. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity across life changes.
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