About Giles
Giles Christman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 12 years of clinical experience. He works with people facing relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
Giles practices in North Carolina and offers help in English. He focuses on relationship and family concerns in straightforward, practical ways.
Sessions often center on improving communication, sorting through divorce and separation issues, and addressing attachment and abandonment concerns. Giles also helps people who feel isolated, guilty, or stuck in a midlife crisis to clarify values and next steps.
Giles draws on trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches to guide therapy. He uses techniques to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress and depression while highlighting a person’s existing skills and resources.
Treatment plans are adjusted to fit each person’s situation and goals. His background includes work with schools and juvenile justice systems supporting youth with behavior challenges.
That experience informs how he approaches caregiver stress, conduct concerns, and communication problems at home. He aims to make sessions useful and tied to everyday life.
Giles emphasizes practical tools people can use between meetings. He helps clients practice new ways of talking, set boundaries, and rebuild trust after losses or betrayal.
The goal is clearer thinking and steadier relationships over time.
Approaches that guide online work and support
Giles draws on trauma-informed techniques that help people process difficult events and reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress. These methods focus on stabilizing strong emotions and teaching coping skills so daily life becomes more manageable.He also uses strengths-based work that highlights a person’s existing resources and abilities. This approach helps clients identify what they already do well, build confidence, and apply those strengths to relationship and life challenges.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and adjust methods as needs change. Clients and therapist collaborate to decide what feels most helpful and practical for each situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging work for short check-ins, quick problem-solving, or when people prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English