Christine Piddington
Supportive family-focused social worker
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine Piddington is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience who focuses on clear, practical support for parents and families. She draws on years of hospice social work to guide people through grief and loss, and she offers straightforward help for stress, anxiety, and family conflicts.
Sessions are conducted remotely for clients across California, using formats that fit busy schedules. Her background includes two years in the Peace Corps in Belize, where she advocated for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Background and approach
That advocacy work carried into roles supporting underprivileged communities, and into experience helping clients with workplace disability leave and securing emotional support animals for housing. Christine has also worked in prison and hospital settings, which broadened her perspective on different life circumstances. In the therapy room she treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She helps people name problems, set realistic goals, and try small changes that make daily life easier. Her style is direct and compassionate, with a focus on practical steps to reduce stress and improve family dynamics. She uses Existential Therapy to help clients face big life questions and find meaning when life feels uncertain.
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify what is already working and build on those strengths with short-term, goal-oriented work. Christine holds a California LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - license number CA LCSW 69521. She works with many concerns including trauma, addiction, depression, parenting matters, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Remote sessions are offered by video, phone, chat, or text to fit varied needs.
How Existential and Solution-Focused Approaches Work Online
Existential Therapy looks at big life questions and helps people name what matters most in their life. It supports clients facing loss, change, or questions about purpose by encouraging honest reflection and choices that align with personal values.Solution-Focused Therapy is short-term and goal-oriented. It focuses on small, practical steps and on what is already working, which can be helpful for stress, family conflicts, and parenting challenges where concrete changes are needed quickly.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together over time so therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to get consistent care from home or work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer flexibility, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy family schedules and make it simpler to use the therapeutic tools discussed in sessions.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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