About Cristina
Cristina Spataro is a New York State licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing life changes, parenting strain, addiction concerns, ADHD challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Cristina writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her approach is warm and direct. Sessions focus on understanding what feels hardest and finding small, realistic changes that add up.
Background and approach
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people name thoughts, test unhelpful patterns, and try new behaviors. Therapy sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Cristina has worked with people in crisis and with those who want help before problems escalate.
She pays attention to life context, including adoption and foster care history, caregiver stress, and communication problems that affect daily life. She also addresses career concerns, midlife transitions, and women's issues. Practical tools such as coping strategies for anxiety, planning for change, and skills to manage anger and impulses are part of her work.
She offers coaching-style support when helpful, alongside clinical approaches for trauma, bipolar-related concerns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered from New York and conducted in English. Cristina aims to make therapy understandable and useful so people can take clearer steps toward feeling better.
How Cristina’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In short sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and check what works. It is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with change.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person clarify goals. This approach supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, identity and self-esteem concerns, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cristina will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and combine methods that match those needs. She aims to make decisions together so therapy feels practical and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a workday or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text allow shorter check-ins, written reflections, and flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep building skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English