About Christine
Christine Gorski-Makar is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in New York. She brings 15 years of practice to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. She speaks English and Ukrainian and works with clients dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career stress.
Her style is warm and interactive. She aims to treat people with respect, genuineness, and compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to each person's needs rather than following a fixed script. Christine blends several approaches to fit what a client needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. She also incorporates client-centered elements so the conversation stays focused on the client's concerns and goals. This allows the therapeutic pace and focus to adjust as progress is made.
Christine has long experience with addiction and trauma work, including people who have experienced physical or emotional abuse and PTSD symptoms. Over her career she has helped people facing complex issues such as bipolar disorder, autism spectrum challenges, personality-related difficulties, co-occurring conditions, and first responder stress. Her aim is to support practical steps for coping and change while respecting each person's story.
How her methods translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on active listening and making the session about the client's priorities. Online sessions keep that same attention to goals and feelings, with the therapist following the client's lead and adjusting the pace as needed.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In online work CBT is used with practical homework, thought records, and specific skill practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and using mindfulness. Those skills can be taught and practiced during video or text-based sessions to support emotion regulation and coping during high-stress moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans over time based on what helps most. This shared approach aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual connection matters. Phone sessions may fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when short written reflections are easier to manage. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian