About Christine
Christine Piddington uses an existential and solution-focused approach to help people make sense of hard life moments and find practical next steps. She is a California-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience. Christine began as a hospice social worker and carries that experience into grief and loss work.
Her practice centers on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, and addictions.
How Christine works
Relationship struggles, parenting concerns, anger, and self-esteem are part of the work she often addresses. Christine spent two years in the Peace Corps in Belize, where she advocated for people living with HIV/AIDS. That advocacy informs her wider background in community and client rights.
She has worked in hospital and prison settings and supported people through disability leave and housing-related emotional support animal processes. For the last 7.5 years she has worked remotely with clients across California. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Christine emphasizes short, practical goals alongside deeper meaning-making when people face major life transitions. She believes each person knows their story best and brings curiosity rather than judgment. Her aim is to help callers uncover strengths and try small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's needs.
Christine lists 2 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Using existential and solution-focused approaches online
Christine offers two complementary ways of working that fit well online. Existential therapy helps people look at meaning, values, and choices when life feels confusing or painful; it supports work on grief, major life changes, and questions about purpose. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, concrete steps and clear goals to reduce stress and solve current problems quickly.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will discuss your concerns and goals, try an approach, and adjust as needed based on what feels most helpful. She focuses on combining meaning-focused conversation with practical actions so people leave sessions with both insight and something to try.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier with limited bandwidth, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving demands, or travel.
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