Christie Hines, LCSW

Christie Hines is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of experience helping people through stressful and transitional periods. She offers a warm, down-to-earth style that aims to make clients feel comfortable speaking openly. Her approach is collaborative and direct, with room for humor alongside honest conversation.

Christie primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She often works on practical skills like managing anxiety, reducing stress, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions may also focus on improving communication and building healthier coping strategies.

When needed, Christie blends other approaches such as Client-Centered techniques and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tools to match each person’s needs. She emphasizes emotional regulation and learning small daily practices that can shift how someone responds to difficult moments. The aim is useful, achievable change rather than abstract theory.

Christie works with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She also addresses specific areas like abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. Her work is practical and focused on things people can try between sessions.

Reaching out can feel hard, especially if you usually manage on your own. Christie encourages starting wherever you are - whether you have a clear goal or just a sense that something needs to change. She guides each person toward steps they can take to feel steadier and more in control.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Christie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is practical and tends to include short exercises and skills you can practice between sessions.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. DBT-based strategies are useful for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. Client-Centered techniques are woven in to ensure sessions stay focused on your goals and feel respectful of your pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christie will collaborate with each person to pick or combine methods that fit their needs and goals. That process often starts with a conversation about what feels most pressing and what kinds of changes are realistic.

Confirm current session options before booking, since session formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with Christie about what will work best for scheduling and the session length you prefer.