About Christine
Christine Shim is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 10 years of experience in nonprofit and healthcare settings. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Christine uses clear, direct language and a collaborative stance in sessions.
She draws on client-centered work to make space for each person’s perspective and on cognitive behavioral techniques to pinpoint thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
How Christine works
Dialectical behavior ideas are used to build skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions are meant to feel straight‑forward and useful rather than academic. Christine combines solution-focused strategies with a strengths-based outlook.
Together with clients she identifies small, achievable steps that can change daily routines and relationships. She pays attention to issues like intimacy, parenting strains, career stress, and caregiver burden while adapting tools to each person’s life. Her background includes work across healthcare and nonprofit teams, giving her familiarity with medical, caregiving, and life-stage challenges.
That experience informs how she talks about chronic illness, bereavement, and transitions so clients can make plans that fit real constraints. Therapy with her usually centers on problem-solving, skill building, and exploring patterns that repeat in relationships and mood. Christine emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and decide how far to take the work.
She accepts international clients and provides sessions in English.
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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
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s view so they feel heard and respected; it helps people clarify their goals and make choices that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns that fuel anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying CBT techniques for a period, then shifting to more emotion-focused or skills-based work as needs change. Clients help set the pace and decide which tools feel useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a work break or lower bandwidth needs, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones.
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