About Christine
Christine Savas is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois with eight years of experience. She aims to help people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, relationship challenges, sleep problems, career shifts, and general life changes.
Christine focuses on how these issues affect daily life - work, relationships, and how you feel about yourself. She approaches each person as an individual and tailors sessions to specific needs.
How Christine works
Christine blends practical strategies with conversations about habits, routines, and lifestyle factors that support mental health. She pays attention to how activities, nutrition, and the environment can influence mood and energy. In sessions she uses a mix of evidence-based techniques including cognitive-behavioral methods, dialectical-behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and psychodynamic ideas.
The goal is to find what helps you manage symptoms and make changes that fit your life. Christine prefers an integrative approach so methods are combined when that makes sense. Her background includes work in nonprofit settings with at-risk young adults in Chicago and independent practice with a range of diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, adjustment concerns, and ADHD.
That experience shaped her focus on real-world functioning rather than labels. She encourages practical steps alongside talking through challenges. Christine holds a master of education in Counseling from DePaul University and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Human Relations from the University of Iowa.
She looks forward to partnering with people who are ready to set goals and take manageable steps forward.
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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Christine uses a few evidence-based approaches to help people make day-to-day improvements. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. These techniques are practical and aimed at producing clearer changes in thinking and routine.Dialectical-behavior ideas provide skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship strain. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce reactivity and support better sleep and focus.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still working with licensed professionals.
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