Christina Teel-Gonzales, LPC

Christina Teel-Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career strain, and big life changes. She also supports people navigating relationship and parenting pressures, ADHD, and LGBT concerns. Christina writes simply and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.

Christina uses straightforward, solution-minded methods that help people make small changes that matter. She draws on client-centered listening to shape sessions around each person's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and solution-focused steps to set practical, achievable goals.

She trained at Texas State University, earning a master's degree in Counseling and Guidance, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Texas. Her work spans a range of concerns including caregiver strain, end-of-life issues, immigration stress, abandonment wounds, and grief related to illness.

Christina has maintained private practices in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio and has international life experience from living in Germany and traveling widely. She often integrates everyday skills into therapy so people can try things between sessions and measure progress.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people set realistic next steps and checks in on what’s working. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking.

How her methods translate to online therapy

Christina uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the person in the room. That approach focuses on understanding concerns, reflecting what’s been said, and shaping sessions around the client’s priorities. It helps with feeling heard and clarifying goals.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and practices concrete exercises to shift those patterns. CBT can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and problems with focus. Solution-focused therapy is another part of her work, emphasizing small, practical steps and quick experiments that aim for measurable change in everyday life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christina will talk about different ways of working and tailor sessions to the client’s goals, needs, and preferences in a collaborative way. She checks in and adapts methods if something isn’t helping.

The original biography notes she sees clients virtually through online counseling sites. Confirm the current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can work on goals between commitments.