Christyn Jaap, LPC

Christyn Jaap is a Licensed Professional Counselor who offers practical, down-to-earth support for people navigating relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and focuses on what matters most to each person. Christyn emphasizes strengths and simple steps that can help reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.

She draws on five years of counseling experience and earlier work in schools as a teacher, coach, and counselor. That background shaped her way of working: calm, direct, and oriented toward real-life changes rather than jargon. Sessions tend to center on identifying patterns, learning new coping skills, and testing small changes outside of therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her approach and is used to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to make sessions feel responsive and grounded. Motivational techniques help when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.

Christyn works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, obsessive thoughts, panic, bipolar-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses topics like commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, and life purpose when these come up in sessions.

Her manner is supportive and straightforward. She aims to help people set realistic goals and practice small, manageable changes between meetings. The focus is practical progress that fits into everyday life.

Online approaches that guide practical change

Christyn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and habits, try different responses, and track what improves. CBT is often useful for anxiety, panic, obsessive thinking, and depression because it ties thinking and behavior to real outcomes. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions responsive to each person. That approach emphasizes being heard, building trust, and shaping goals around what matters most to the individual.

Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. Christyn collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. She will check in about what helps and adjust methods over time so sessions feel useful and attainable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can handle quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions.