Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade

Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Minnesota with 11 years of experience. She offers trauma-focused care and draws on client-centered principles to help people feel heard and respected. Her style is patient, understanding, and nonjudgmental.

Crissy uses several practical methods to address symptoms like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. She includes cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-focused and existential approaches help clients explore feelings, values, and meaning when life feels confusing.

Her background includes work with Native American communities and familiarity with Ojibwe cultural perspectives. She also has experience supporting teens with anger, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence concerns, and she sees adults and elders for a wide range of issues.

Crissy lists trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue among her focus areas. She can address more specific concerns such as panic attacks, phobias, postpartum depression, and process addictions. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, first responder issues, veterans and armed forces concerns, and multicultural stressors.

Her practice emphasizes working at each person’s pace and building on strengths. Clients are invited to describe their story and goals, and to try approaches that match their needs. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule with the clinician.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on helping people process and reduce the impact of traumatic events. It often combines careful pacing with techniques that address how the body and mind store distressing memories. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaborative goal setting so people feel understood as they work through difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete tools to test and change them.

Choosing a therapeutic approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they can try one method or blend approaches over time to find what fits the person and the situation.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or avoiding travel time. It can also let people access clinicians who understand cultural backgrounds or trauma issues without needing to relocate. Ask about session length and scheduling when completing the intake questionnaire so arrangements match everyday routines.