Christine Garwick-Foley
Practical counseling for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor who combines compassionate listening with practical tools. She uses clear, straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Christine draws on 25 years of experience to guide clients through life changes and difficult emotions.
Her work treats problems that affect daily life, such as trouble sleeping, anger, eating concerns, and issues tied to trauma or abuse. She also addresses relationship strains, LGBT concerns, career stress, and family-related topics.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on finding usable steps that fit each persons situation. Christine blends several well-established approaches in session. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes understanding a persons experience and building on their strengths.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and EMDR when the situation calls for them. In meetings she moves beyond just talking.
Christine helps people tap into inner resources and teaches practical skills they can use between sessions. Her style is direct but gentle, aimed at steady forward movement rather than quick fixes. Located in Minnesota, she holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor.
Christines long practice includes work with grief, chronic pain, attachment and family of origin issues, aging concerns, and caregiver stress. She aims to create clear steps so clients feel more in control of their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Christine uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen carefully and help people use their own strengths to solve problems. That approach focuses on understanding a persons experience and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space to work through concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. For trauma-related concerns she may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, to help process distressing memories when appropriate.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the issue at hand. The plan is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls and phone sessions let people meet from home, while live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use skills learned in session in real time.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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