Christine Perez, LCPC, LPC

Christine Perez is a licensed counselor who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges in relationships. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and has worked in the field for 24 years. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.

She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel worry or low mood. Christine also draws on client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities and strengths. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are woven in to build coping skills and small, achievable steps forward.

Christine has experience guiding people through life changes such as midlife shifts, postpartum depression, and seasonal mood changes. She supports those dealing with self-esteem issues, social anxiety, and stress at work or in daily life. She also addresses concerns that include eating and food-related issues, control struggles, and feelings of emptiness.

Her practice includes attention to more specific problems like disruptive mood dysregulation disorder symptoms, self-harm thoughts, jealousy and infidelity impacts, and challenges faced by first responders. Sessions aim to be practical - identifying a struggle, trying a new strategy, and tracking what helps.

In consults she uses motivational interviewing when people need help deciding on change and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals. Her work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, with clear steps people can use between sessions.

How Christine’s Approaches Work Online

Christine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the thoughts that feed anxiety and depression, then test and change those patterns with manageable homework and real-life experiments. This approach is useful for worries, low mood, and social anxiety. She also uses client-centered techniques to prioritize what matters to each person, offering reflective listening and a steady focus on the client’s goals.

Mindfulness is used to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation. These short exercises can be practiced between sessions and help with stress, persistent worry, and mood swings. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together - the therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, pace, and preferences.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide scheduling flexibility and multiple ways to keep progress moving forward.