Christine welcomes supporting individuals of all ages with a special focus on adolescents, college and graduate students, and young adults, and in also providing couple, relationship, and family counseling, and therapy programs and groups. She specializes in working with complex trauma, acute stress, attachment disruptions, interpersonal concerns, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders, eating and body image struggles, ADHD, and neurodiversity..

Christine is honored to work with clients with diverse family, social and multicultural influences. She strives to create a supportive space that is nurturing and affirming of identity exploration and development, gender-expansive and sex-positive, and fosters openness and collaboration.  She supports clients in developing their strengths and capacities, sense of self and identity, emotional awareness and expression, and strategies and skills for coping, communication, school and work.

Christine brings empathy, playfulness, curiosity, and acceptance into the therapeutic alliance to foster hope, growth, and lasting change. She uses an integrative approach that is informed by relational, client-centered and attachment theories, trauma focused practices, mindfulness, expressive and emotionally focused therapies, and problem-solving and solution-focused approaches.

Christine is experienced working as a clinical therapist and supervisor, and in training and adjunct faculty roles. She earned her  BFA in Sculpture and Art Education and her  MA in Counseling Art Therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.