Christine Abrams, LPC
Practical, experienced counseling for parenting and life challenges
Book with Christine- Years in practice
- 35
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Christine
Christine Abrams is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles. She has 35 years of experience and offers a calm, practical style that aims to make therapy feel useful and grounded. She has worked in community mental health centers, agencies, and colleges across Pennsylvania.
That background shaped a straightforward way of working. Sessions focus on real concerns and clear priorities rather than abstract theory.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Christine uses client-centered techniques to follow each person's pace and voice. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and build new patterns.
Mindfulness practices and trauma-informed methods are added when they fit the need. These tools are picked selectively to match what someone wants to change and how they prefer to work. Worksheets, short exercises, or creative activities like writing or art may be suggested.
Because much of her work has involved family-related issues, Christine often asks about relationships, home life, and cultural background. She looks for existing strengths to apply toward parenting concerns, grief, addiction, ADHD, and other challenges listed in her specialties. Christine describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people set goals, consider practical options, and try strategies between sessions. The aim is steady progress and usable skills that make everyday life easier.
What Christine works with
Everything Christine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Christine helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Christine lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Christine commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on the person's own goals and perspective, creating space to be heard and to set priorities. Client-centered work helps when someone needs support sorting feelings and deciding what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and behavior. CBT offers concrete techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, and it can help with anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts tools over time and often combines approaches when that better serves progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions can be useful with lower bandwidth needs, live chat can fit a quick check-in, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
Questions people ask about Christine
What concerns does Christine commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship issues, addictions, trauma, grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear priorities and tools that clients can use between sessions.
What is her background and experience?
She has 35 years of experience providing therapy in community mental health centers, agencies, and colleges, and has supervised counselors seeking licensure.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Pennsylvania and practices with that credential.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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