Christianne Griffin, LPC

Christianne Griffin is a licensed professional counselor with 24 years of experience based in Wisconsin. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship struggles. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, eating or sleeping problems, and major life changes.

Christianne focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away. She listens closely and uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and other approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Sessions are conversational and aimed at building skills for daily life.

Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, attachment concerns, and trauma recovery. She has also helped people manage chronic illness, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and issues related to adoption and foster care. Her experience spans many common and complex situations people bring to therapy.

Christianne adapts methods to each person's needs, blending acceptance and commitment ideas, emotion-focused techniques, and a client-centered stance. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, understand their feelings, and make changes that match their values. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant.

Practical goals are central to her work. Christianne helps clients develop coping strategies for anger, career strain, ADHD-related challenges, and communication problems. She emphasizes small, steady steps that add up to real change.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Christianne commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy when working with clients online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes noticing difficult feelings, clarifying personal values, and taking steps that match those values to handle life transitions and chronic stress.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships. That approach looks at how early relationship experiences shape current ways of connecting and helps clients try new, healthier interaction patterns. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together; she will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, and flexible communication during busy schedules.