About Christina
Christina Van Winkle helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, attachment struggles, panic attacks, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
Christina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience to her work.
Christina keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what each person needs. She listens first, then helps set small, manageable goals.
Sessions often include skill building, problem solving, and time to talk through painful memories or current stresses. Her style adjusts to the person in front of her.
Some people want practical tools for panic and anxiety. Others need space to process grief, guilt, or shame.
Christina blends approaches to match those needs and the pace each person prefers. She often helps people with relationship communication, caregiver stress, and life purpose questions.
Christina also supports those coping with post-traumatic stress and sleep or anger challenges. Work in sessions can include practicing new ways to respond, building self-compassion, and making realistic plans for change.
Christina offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options for therapy. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions based on availability.
She aims to create a calm, practical space to make steady progress.
How Christina Uses Therapy Tools Online
Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in clear, practical ways. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce intense fear responses. Another useful strand of work helps people process trauma by creating a safe pace for remembering and by practicing new ways to respond to triggers. These approaches aim to reduce daily distress and improve functioning.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Christina treats the selection of techniques as collaborative. She listens to the client's goals, tries brief exercises, and adjusts methods based on what helps most in early sessions. The plan can change as needs shift over time.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or camera use feels difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins, skill practice, and schedule-friendly support easier to fit into a busy week. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and to choose the format that fits daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English