Christyn Jaap
Calm, practical help for parenting and relationships
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christyn
Christyn Jaap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on practical support for common life and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person. Parents reading on a phone will find clear, direct help for parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma-related issues.
Christyn draws on five years of counseling experience and earlier work in schools as a teacher, coach, and counselor.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to talk with young people and adults in everyday language. She emphasizes a strengths-based view, treating each client as the expert on their own story. In sessions she listens first, then collaborates on small, doable steps that match a client’s goals.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful patterns, and she brings mindfulness practices to help with stress and emotional regulation. Elements of motivational interviewing help people find practical reasons to change. Christyn also uses relationship-focused techniques from the Gottman Method to address communication and intimacy-related issues.
She helps parents manage the strain of raising children and works with individuals on family problems without running family sessions. Her style is straightforward, supportive, and goal-oriented. People who choose her can expect a respectful, down-to-earth partnership.
She aims to empower clients to build skills they can use between sessions and to make steady progress toward clearer priorities and healthier routines.
How therapy approaches and online sessions work together
Christyn uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting conversation where the client’s goals shape the work. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people notice their own strengths and choices.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and coping with life changes.
Deciding which approach fits best is a team effort. The therapist will ask about your concerns, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she tailors techniques and checks in regularly to make sure the plan still fits your needs.
Online therapy formats make this work more flexible. Video calls let a person and therapist meet face-to-face from home. Phone sessions remove the need for video when that feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, timely check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy family and work lives while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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