Christine Savas
Compassionate counselor for family concerns
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christine
Christine Savas is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois who works with parents and adults facing family and parenting concerns. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and compassion fatigue. Christine keeps sessions practical and centered on what matters day to day.
She explains options plainly and helps people set realistic goals for change. Christine earned a Master of Education in Counseling from DePaul University and completed undergraduate studies in Psychology and Human Relations at the University of Iowa.
Background and approach
She has eight years of clinical experience, including work with at-risk young adults in Chicago and in independent practice. Her background includes supporting people with a range of diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, adjustment concerns, and ADHD. In sessions she pays attention to how symptoms affect work, relationships, and daily routines rather than focusing only on labels.
She adapts methods to fit each person, drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, and psychodynamic ideas. She also uses a holistic lens that considers nutrition, activity, and environment. Christine aims for a collaborative feel in the room.
She helps people identify small, useful changes and then practices those skills together. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented while remaining flexible to each person’s needs. Practical matters are part of the work.
She plans sessions that address coping with life changes, sleep problems, career stress, and parenting challenges. Christine encourages clear next steps so progress feels measurable and manageable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Christine draws on cognitive behavioral techniques that help identify unhelpful thought patterns and teach practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. These techniques focus on small experiments and behavior changes to improve daily functioning.She also uses mindfulness-based strategies and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and stress tolerance. These practices can help someone stay calmer during parenting challenges or high-stress moments and build steady routines.
Christine favors an integrative approach, mixing evidence-based strategies with psychodynamic ideas when helpful to understand patterns that play out in relationships. Together the client and therapist decide which methods feel most useful and adjust those methods over time in a collaborative way.
Online therapy with Christine is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and allow follow-up between meetings. The variety of options supports flexible pacing and practical skill work from home, so therapy can move at a comfortable rhythm while still focusing on real-life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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