Christian Specks
Practical therapy for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christian
Christian Specks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Louisiana. She brings 14 years of social work experience to her therapy and supervision. Christian focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, and related issues.
She writes and teaches about social work and special education while continuing clinical practice. Her approach is straightforward and practical. She talks with clients about what is happening now and what they want to change.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build clear skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and solving specific problems at home and work. Christian uses a mix of methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. She adapts tools to each person’s situation and pace.
That might mean practicing coping skills, reworking unhelpful thoughts, or strengthening boundaries with family members. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people identify what matters most and map small steps toward it. This can be useful for parenting challenges, relationship tensions, grief, addiction concerns, or navigating life changes.
Christian aims to make therapy concrete and applicable between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy centers on the person’s experience and priorities and focuses on listening and collaboration to set goals and make changes. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to decide their own next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to shift patterns that cause stress or depression. It is useful for worry, low mood, and habits that get in the way of daily life. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, combines skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication; it is helpful for strong emotions and relationship difficulties.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify priorities, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what does and does not help. That collaborative process sets clear, realistic goals that reflect the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats let people participate from home or work and fit therapy into busy schedules. Using different online options can make it easier to maintain continuity between sessions and practice skills in real-life situations.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Christian
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point