About Christine
Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of professional experience based in Georgia. She brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and uses practical, goal-focused work to help people move forward. Christine favors a lightly humorous, human approach that helps people feel at ease while they face hard things.
She has worked across a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions.
How Christine works
Her background includes supporting people through identity questions and gender dysphoria, navigating parenting challenges, and addressing self-esteem and relationship stress. Christine also has experience with ADHD and neurodiversity, and with issues related to adoption, attachment, and caregiver strain. Christine blends several therapeutic methods to match each person’s needs.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns of thinking that cause distress, and elements of Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work focused on the person's goals. She often suggests small, measurable tasks to try between sessions so progress is concrete.
She is kink and BDSM lifestyle friendly and affirms ethically non-monogamous arrangements such as polyamory. Christine also supports people processing shifts away from conservative religious backgrounds and the subcultural changes that follow. Outside of therapy she likes science fiction, art from found objects, board games, and caring for a small aquarium.
That relaxed, curious spirit shows up in sessions as a mixture of humor, creativity, and steady focus on what the person wants to change.
Christine lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Christine commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them, then take small actions that align with those values. ACT can help when someone feels stuck by focusing on meaningful steps rather than only trying to remove uncomfortable feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try simple experiments that change behavior and mood. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into specific thoughts and actions you can test.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine treats the selection of methods as a collaborative process. Together she and the client look at goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, chat offers a quicker real-time check-in, and messaging suits people who prefer shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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