Christie Wakefield, LMFT
Compassionate, practical support for real life
About Christie
Christie Wakefield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Georgia. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Christie emphasizes respect and compassion in sessions and meets clients where they are in readiness for change. Christie uses a mix of structured and experiential approaches to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns, Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build emotion regulation skills, and EMDR to address traumatic memories when appropriate. She also uses Gottman-informed techniques for relationship work and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
Her background includes work in community mental health programs and running trauma recovery and LGBTQ support groups. That experience shaped her ability to address addiction alongside co-occurring depression and anxiety.
Christie describes her role as a collaborator who helps people set realistic goals and practice new skills between sessions. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Christie often combines skill teaching, guided reflection, and behavioral experiments so clients can test changes in day-to-day life. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk frankly about identity, intimacy, parenting stresses, grief, and anger.
With four years of clinical experience, Christie uses clear, down-to-earth language during sessions. She supports people through life changes, relationship strain, and recovery from trauma, helping them build coping tools that fit their routines.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Christie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. DBT tools are practical skills that can be practiced between sessions to reduce reactivity and improve relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used when trauma memories are blocking progress; it focuses on reducing the emotional intensity of specific memories so people can think and cope more clearly.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Christie will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past, then suggest methods to try. She adapts techniques over time as needs change so treatment stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use facial cues and screen-sharing for exercises, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging offers short check-ins or in-the-moment coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep practicing skills consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English