Christine O'Neill

Christine O'Neill is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and trauma. She brings 18 years of experience and a warm, interactive style that aims to make change feel achievable. Her approach often includes goal-focused work and practical steps clients can try between sessions. She describes her method as coaching-oriented, using short tasks and clear goals to move progress forward. Humor is part of her work and is used to ease difficult conversations and make tough topics less overwhelming. Christine favors exchanges that let clients pause and reflect before responding, which can deepen insight and planning. Christine draws on trauma-focused therapy when addressing past harm and its effects on daily life. She also uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s priorities, and cognitive behavioral tools to reshape unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior ideas and existential therapy perspectives appear when emotion regulation and meaning are central concerns. Her background includes many settings and a long clinical history with mood disorders, addictions, life transitions, divorce, and family-related stress. Christine works from Colorado and connects with people in English. She accepts international clients and combines practical homework with conversational sessions to support steady change. People who value a direct, collaborative coach-style therapist will find her straightforward and encouraging. To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

How Christine uses online approaches and trauma-focused care

Christine uses trauma-focused therapy to address past harm and its present effects in clear, practical steps. This approach helps people name traumatic experiences, understand how those events shape feelings and behavior, and practice ways to reduce distress in daily life. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on what matters most to the person. That means sessions follow the client’s pace, priorities, and goals rather than fitting them to a preset agenda. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of progress. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Christine works with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts tasks and tools based on how the client is responding. Because her practice has used messaging and live messaging, she values options that let people reflect before replying and that fit into busy days. If you want a particular session format, confirm the current options before booking. Many clients find online conversations easier to fit around work, caregiving, or travel, and messaging can allow extra time to think through answers and homework between exchanges.