About me
My goal is to help people find meaning and purpose in life, find common pathways between actions and thoughts and create a safe place to find positive solutions. I can find creative ways to approach growth and change in daily lives. For many people, change is difficult, and they cannot move past the barrier of unfamiliar feelings. Together, we find solutions that help move away from anxiety and unfamiliar feelings towards self-confidence.
I am an experienced, trained and Licensed Marriage and Family therapist and a life coach that corresponds with my clinical skills and experience specializing in treating individuals with mental, emotional or behavioral disorders or couples experiencing relationship distress. I am skilled to treat not only the disorder but the impact these disorders have on an interpersonal level, relationship networks such as social setting, school, dating, marriage relationships and families. I have worked with individuals, couples and families with various types of needs including mental health issues, relationship or family issues, intimacy and sexuality, relationship addiction, co-dependency, self-esteem, abuse in all forms, deciding to separate or breakup and working through the break up for almost 17 years both online and in my private practice. Not only am I a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I consultant as a Family Divorce Mediator, Child Custody Evaluator, a Nationally Certified Parent Instructor and a Qualified Parent Coordinator.
Empathy, compassion and understanding help to take a relational, non-judgmental approach to my work. I aim to make each client feel accomplishment and strength along with realizing their role in finding positive change. I specialize in helping people improve their individual selves or their relationships, move out of feeling stuck, and reduce their anxiety, depression or anger.
I encourage a non-adversarial approach in identifying individual, needs and strengths to determine where the breakdown in an individual or relationship occurred in order to strengthen, restructure, reorganize and rebuild.
My innate strength of understanding, empathy, compassion, and integrity is my foundation for professional services. My instinctive strengths help in my ability to effectively identify and determine unhealthy individual or relationship patterns to provide direct, simple and straight forward techniques of communicating. This is instrumental in helping people stay grounded, focused and validated. I am a kind, empathetic, compassionate and thoughtful therapist with a personality and list of skills that sets me apart.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy correspond with my style; However, I prefer to individualize treatment for each client by choosing the specific type of theory or therapy that meets individual, relationship or family needs that target the desired outcome of therapy.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBTQ+
- Relationships
- Self esteem, Motivation
- Coping with life changes
Family conflicts , Trauma and abuse , Grief , Intimacy-related issues , Parenting issues , Career difficulties , Abandonment , Adoption and Foster Care , Aging and Geriatric Issues , Attachment issues , Avoidant Personality , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Years of Experience: 11
Services offered
Messaging
Phone
Video
Licensing
FL LMFT MT3108
NC LMFT 2354
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Christine Whittaker. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Regain might be different.
We have made a lot of progress with her tools and the way she is with us!
Christine has been very helpful in helping me to move through my feelings about my relationship with my mother as well as holding space for my partner and I to work on our relationship
Christine has been an amazingly responsive and pragmatic counselor. She is exactly who I’ve needed to help me feel confident and more clear about my emotions. She is a calm, empathetic, and experienced professional who I would recommend to absolutely everyone!
She's a good counsellor. We are really happy that Regain paired us with her. She's really nice. This was our first time doing counselling and we feel very comfortable with her
Christine is a highly expert and knowledgeable psychologist who can quickly understand the issue and realize the likely personality disorders. She is very caring and follow up the client frequently and keep the conversation until the client find out the problem and become capable to resolve the problem.
Christine has been a big help to us in just a short time. She has made us feel comfortable and asked good questions to get us thinking and communicating better with each other in order to improve our relationship. We definitely recommend her!
She is very understanding and I feel safe and comfortable with her.
Christine has been helpful in guiding us to reach a decision that we both are comfortable with. Christine is a great listener and she knows how to ask the right questions at the right times. She always follows up with us between sessions to see how we are doing. She has been a great help! Much appreciated and highly suggested for a couple going through tough times.
Christine is very helpful.
Christine was absolutely amazing. Her responsiveness was great. She would ask the right questions at the right times and I could not imagine going through my situation without her guidance. She would frequently check in on me and had great availability for our sessions. The reason I am in such a better place is due to her. Thank you, Christine.
Dr. Whittaker has been so helpful to both me and my partner. We came to her for relationship maintenance, and she gave us lots of strategies for better communication as well as valuable insights to help us be the best couple we can be. She is a great listener, and is very knowledgeable about different personality types. After working with her for a month, we feel more confident in our relationship and in ourselves. We will definitely work with her again in the future!