About Christine
Christine Williams-Kelly is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 17 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and life transitions. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use each day to feel steadier and more in control.
She centers sessions on the individual's story. Christine listens first, then helps clients set small, realistic goals. She uses simple tools to improve communication, manage strong emotions, and address relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. That means sessions often include talking things through, identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, and practicing skills to reduce distress. Christine also incorporates strategies from dialectical and emotionally-focused work when they fit the client's needs.
She pays attention to identity and culture and helps people navigate issues like adoption and foster care histories, family of origin problems, or caregiving stress. Christine also supports people dealing with addictions, ADHD, grief, and burnout from caregiving or work-related compassion fatigue. Sessions are practical and goal-driven while staying warm and respectful.
Christine helps clients build resilience, improve self-esteem, and find clearer paths forward. People leave with exercises and next steps to practice between meetings.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and following their lead. Online sessions using this approach often center on open conversation and the therapist reflecting what the client says to build clarity and trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change them. In an online setting CBT can include worksheets, thought records, and step-by-step practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships; these skills can be practiced in short exercises, phone check-ins, or text-based skill reminders.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will suggest methods and adjust them as progress is made, so clients help shape what the process looks like.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or low bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English