Christy Howard
Compassionate LCSW helping families navigate change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky, Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christy
Christy Howard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 25 years in the field. She holds LCSW credentials in Indiana and Kentucky. Christy works with people who are managing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, attention differences, and trauma.
She also brings experience addressing caregiver strain, adoption and foster care issues, and a range of life transitions. Christy has a long history in crisis intervention, including more than 16 years as a counselor on a suicide hotline in Louisville, Kentucky.
Background and approach
That work shaped her ability to stay calm during high-emotion moments and to focus on practical steps that reduce immediate distress. She is also a Registered Play Therapist and supervisor and holds AutPlay Level II certification, which inform how she supports people connected to neurodiversity and play-based strategies. Her approach is flexible and collaborative.
She mixes methods from several therapy styles to match what each person needs. Sessions often include concrete tools for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and handling everyday stressors. Parents and caregivers will find that Christy talks plainly about parenting strategies and attachment concerns.
She helps people sort out patterns in relationships and rebuild trust and connection. For those coping with grief, loss, or trauma, she offers steady support and short-term skill building alongside deeper, longer-term work as needed. Christy practices in Kentucky and provides care in English.
People who want to start can use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-based choices and practical steps that fit daily life, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections; it is useful for parenting, relationship concerns, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It often includes short exercises and skill practice that people can use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christy will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences. Then she and the client choose or combine methods that make sense for those priorities, adjusting as progress is made.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the exact session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow brief check-ins when a full office visit isn't possible, and let people use in-session exercises in the places they live and parent. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, attachment-focused work, and CBT for remote sessions so clients keep practicing skills between appointments.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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