About Christine
Christine Penwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee who helps people tackle relationship strain, family challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, anxiety, and self-esteem struggles. She brings seven years of counseling experience to sessions and works with concerns that include ADHD, career questions, intimacy issues, and coping with life changes.
She centers sessions on empathy, genuine listening, and unconditional positive regard. Christine follows a client-centered style and encourages people to guide the topics that matter most to them.
How Christine works
She aims to help clients notice patterns, build skills, and try small changes that feel doable. Her background includes work in multiple states supporting families managing neurodivergence and trauma recovery. That experience shaped her focus on attachment, communication, and practical coping strategies.
She blends evidence-informed methods while keeping the work straightforward and goal-oriented. Christine draws from approaches like attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. In a session she might help a person understand how past relationships affect current ones, reframe negative thoughts, or practice emotion-regulation skills.
Sessions are offered through a range of online formats, and Christine helps people choose what fits their schedule and needs. She works in English and holds a Tennessee LPC credential. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Christine lists 8 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How Christine's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Christine often draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeating relationship cycles by exploring those early experiences and their impact.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it offers clear steps and exercises someone can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on how they are working for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the best fit is found.
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