Christine Barnes
Compassionate, direct care for practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine Barnes is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and challenges tied to life changes. She offers straightforward care with a direct but caring style. Parents and adults looking for practical guidance often turn to her for clear feedback and steady support.
She draws on 17 years of clinical experience that include work in nursing homes, community mental health settings, and extended clinical roles at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Background and approach
That range exposed her to a wide set of issues such as substance use, grief, chronic illness, and crisis intervention. Her background informs a pragmatic way of working through problems. Christine centers trauma in her thinking and believes many current difficulties trace back to earlier adverse experiences.
She uses that perspective to help clients name what happened and then build tools to feel safer and function better in day-to-day life. She can be direct in sessions and values honest feedback between therapist and client. Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused methods.
These approaches guide concrete skills work, emotion regulation, and stepwise processing of hard memories. Christine practices in Texas and holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. She works in English and offers several online formats for meetings such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How Christine Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Christine often draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to improve mood and daily functioning. Trauma-focused therapy helps name and gently process painful memories while teaching safety and coping skills to reduce their impact.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Together they check what’s helping and adjust the plan as needed so work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and make it easier to attend from home or during the day. Therapy by these methods supports regular skill practice, check-ins between sessions, and steady progress without requiring long commutes.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English
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