About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley uses a person-focused approach to guide people through difficult times. She draws on Client-Centered methods to listen closely and help people feel understood. Christine is an LPC with 25 years of experience and practices from Minnesota.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, eating or sleeping struggles, anger, and major life changes.
How Christine works
Her work includes concerns related to LGBT issues and family matters, along with career stress and coping strategies. Christine blends approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps access emotions and improve how people relate to others. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is available for processing traumatic memories. She also offers support around attachment and abandonment issues, aging and caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, body image and eating concerns, and communication problems.
Christine pays attention to the whole person - emotional, physical, and spiritual - when shaping treatment plans. Sessions focus on practical tools and using strengths people already have. Christine helps clients build skills for managing anxiety, navigating grief, and moving forward after setbacks.
Her style is steady, respectful, and goal-oriented.
Christine lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Christine works with
The areas below are the ones Christine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approach and Online Options for Therapy
Christine uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a listening, respectful space where people can make sense of their experiences. This approach focuses on what matters to the person and helps them find their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, supports people in accessing and working with strong emotions to improve relationships and emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That means sessions can shift over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and emotional processing. Phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and people who prefer typing to speaking.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change. Licensed professionals can use these options to deliver many common therapeutic tasks, like skill-building, trauma processing, and problem solving, in ways that suit each person's routine and comfort.
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