Christina Harrison, LCSW
Somatic-informed social worker focused on steady progress
About Christina
Christina Harrison is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She uses a down-to-earth style in sessions and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier. She speaks English and practices in California as a LCSW.
Christina emphasizes a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name difficult feelings. She draws on nine years of experience in behavioral health, including prior work as a paraprofessional in addiction treatment.
Background and approach
That background informs her approach to substance-related concerns and motivation. Her work blends body-focused somatic work with talk-based approaches. Christina also uses attachment-based and client-centered techniques to help people understand relationship patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing are additional tools she may use when appropriate. In sessions she helps people notice how their body and thoughts interact. She guides simple practices to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills.
Sessions often include discussion, movement or breath awareness, and goal-setting tailored to daily life. Christina supports people dealing with grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, parenting strain, chronic pain or health challenges, and life transitions. She helps with communication, boundary-setting, and managing strong emotions like anger or fear.
The goal is steady progress one step at a time.
How somatic and attachment approaches work online
Christina often combines Somatic Therapy with Attachment-Based and Client-Centered work. Somatic Therapy brings attention to body sensations and movements to help reduce stress and trauma symptoms. Attachment-Based work looks at relationship patterns and helps people notice how early bonds affect current connections. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the persons goals and pace, with the therapist following the client's lead.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Christina collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what feels useful and manageable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Sessions can happen over video calls or phone, and some work can be done through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions with accessible check-ins and support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English