Christina Kulp
Compassionate, experienced clinical social worker
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christina
Christina Kulp is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than two decades of experience. She works from a strengths-based perspective and aims to make therapy practical and understandable. Her style is straightforward and warm, meant to help people feel heard and begin making changes that matter.
Christina earned her MSW from Marywood University and completed undergraduate studies at Cedar Crest College with majors in Psychology and Sociology. She also holds post-graduate certificates in Gerontology and Palliative/End of Life Care and is pursuing a doctorate in social work through a joint program at Kutztown and Millersville Universities.
Background and approach
Over her career she has provided counseling in geriatric, nonprofit, and healthcare settings. That variety shaped a flexible approach that mixes evidence-based tools with longer-term thinking about patterns and history. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative ideas, and psychodynamic perspectives tailored to the person in front of her.
In sessions Christina focuses on building trust, empathy, and respect. She helps people identify strengths, cope with symptoms, and make concrete steps toward their goals. She brings trauma-informed care and attention to life transitions into her work.
Practical matters such as sleep, parenting, career stress, grieving, and relationship concerns are among the areas she addresses. Christina is licensed in Pennsylvania as an LCSW and draws on her clinical and academic background to guide the work with each person.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Christina commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Mindfulness therapy includes attention and breathing practices that support emotional regulation and better sleep.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help clarify goals and boost readiness for change. That approach focuses on the clients own values and reasons for change and can be paired with skills-based work when someone is ready to act. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as needed until it feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments. The different formats allow for real-time conversation or shorter check-ins, depending on what fits the persons needs and daily life.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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