Christie uses a variety of modalities in working with clients: 

  • Cognitive Behavioral Interventions and Tools

  • Solution-Focused

  • Person-Centered and Strengths-Based

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Creative and Expressive Arts

  • Neuroscience

  • Dialectic Behavior Therapy (Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance Skills, Interpersonal Relationship Skills and Mindfulness)

  • Trained in the Somatica® Method

  • Certified Sex Therapy Integration Professional

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Specialties and area of interests include:

Anxiety, Depression, Health and Wellness, Stress Management, Grief and Loss, Attention Issues, LGBTQ, Trauma, Adjusting to Change, Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue.  Teens and Young Adults, Women and Men, Individual and Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Workshops and Speaking, Sexual Wholeness and Wellness Issues.

Many insurances do not allow reimbursement for marital or couples therapy. Please see below for options in packages for couples. Both in person in Madison, Wisconsin and virtual options are available.

 

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Additional Training and Experience:

  • Adjunct faculty for Master of Arts in Counseling program at Lakeland University for 8 years

  • Psychotherapist at Central Wisconsin Counseling Associates in Wisconsin Rapids for 15 years

  • Stress Management Instructor and Adjusting to Parenthood Instructor for Riverview Hospital for 5 years

  • Trained facilitator for Therapeutic Crisis Interventions for Families, Cornell University, for 5 years

  • Stress Management Instructor for Riverview Hospital for 5 years

  • School Mental Health Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for 3 years

  • Trained in the Somatica® Method for Sex Education and Relationship Coaching

  • Certified Sex Therapy Integration Professional

 

Personal Philosophy

We are all in this together.  No one is immune from life's ups and downs, crisis, trauma and stress.  We do not have to go it alone and support is there for you.  I approach my work from a place of extreme compassion and non-judgment.  I truly believe everyone is doing the absolute best they can, given their current knowledge and circumstances.  The desire to do better, to make a change, begins inside each individual and it is merely my job to help guide and facilitate the desired change.