About Christine
Christine Whittaker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people untangle anxiety, stress, and relationship strain and move toward clearer choices and more confidence. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at practical steps people can use day to day.
She frames therapy as a partnership. Sessions focus on linking thoughts and actions so changes stick. Christine uses straightforward communication techniques to help people notice patterns, try new responses, and measure small gains.
How Christine works
She emphasizes compassion and respect while keeping work focused and goal-oriented. Christine draws on a range of methods to match the person in front of her. That can include strategies from cognitive behavioral work to emotionally-focused methods and acceptance-based practices.
She adapts tools to meet concerns such as relationship problems, grief, trauma, intimacy questions, and parenting stress. Her background includes extensive work with relationship concerns, family dynamics, and issues around identity and sexuality. Christine also addresses challenges like chronic illness, caregiver stress, abandonment, blended family problems, body image, and communication difficulties.
She aims to help people rebuild trust in themselves and their relationships. Christine offers therapy in English and sees clients across Florida. She provides services remotely and can work with international clients.
New clients start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire to schedule sessions.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Online approaches for relationships and life change
Christine uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is also part of her work - it focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult feelings remain. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) or elements from the Gottman Method inform her approach to relationship work by helping partners improve communication and rebuild trust.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. She adjusts tools over time so therapy stays practical and relevant to what you want to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let you work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat or text messaging can serve as shorter check-ins or flexible options between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit consistent work into everyday life.
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