Christine Vollmer, LCSW

Christine Vollmer is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She offers straightforward, practical support for everyday problems like sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people feel more able to cope.

In sessions she focuses on what is happening now and on small steps that lead to change. Christine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to keep conversations grounded in the client’s values and present moment experience.

Her background includes years of clinical work in Wisconsin with a range of life challenges such as trauma, addiction, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. Christine pays attention to how past experiences, like attachment or abandonment, shape current patterns of thinking and relating.

She aims to build a cooperative relationship where the person’s goals guide the work. Sessions are practical and paced to fit day-to-day life, with strategies you can use between meetings. Christine encourages curiosity about patterns rather than self-blame.

People seeking help for anger, relationship strain, ADHD-related concerns, or life transitions often focus on problem-solving and coping skills in her sessions. Her approach balances short-term tools and longer reflections so people leave with clearer next steps.

How Christine’s Approaches Work Online

Christine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thought patterns and try different behaviors that ease symptoms like anxiety, depression, and low motivation. CBT focuses on practical exercises and experiments that a person can practice between sessions.

She also integrates client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to clarify values, process grief, or sort through relationship and identity questions.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process. Christine will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean using CBT tools one week and more reflective, client-centered conversation the next.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can serve as a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.