Christine O'Connor
Experienced LCSW helping with stress and life change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine O'Connor is a licensed clinical social worker in New Hampshire. She offers support for stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She also addresses issues such as sleep and eating struggles, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy questions, and career stress.
Christine emphasizes practical steps and steady support for people trying to move forward. She approaches work believing each person knows their story best.
Background and approach
Christine helps clients name strengths and use them to meet real challenges. Sessions focus on clear goals and doable strategies rather than jargon. The tone is straightforward and compassionate.
With 27 years of experience, Christine has worked across many settings and with a wide range of problems. That experience informs how she helps people cope with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and complex medical or caregiving situations. She also supports those facing concerns like abandonment, attachment difficulties, and blended family stress.
Christine holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and her New Hampshire license number is LCSW 901. She provides services in English and accepts international clients for online work. Practical issues such as communication and boundaries are commonly part of sessions.
Her style is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Christine offers a mix of conversation, problem solving, and skill practice so people can try new ways of handling stress and relationship strain.
Evidence-based approaches for online help
Christine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One approach focuses on skill building for anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to reduce avoidance and increase coping. This helps people handle daily worry and stressful situations more calmly.Another common method centers on processing trauma and difficult emotions through careful talk and pacing. This work helps people make sense of painful experiences and reduce their hold on daily life. It is applied with attention to each person's comfort and readiness.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match goals, and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to connect from different locations. The various options also allow people to pick the way of communicating that feels most comfortable for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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