About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Minnesota with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Christine uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based work to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.
She believes people are whole beings with physical and emotional parts that affect each other. In sessions she blends Client-Centered listening with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused approaches.
Background and approach
That mix helps people name difficult feelings and try simple, concrete strategies to shift them. Christine often helps people dealing with relationship pain, low self-esteem, anger, or major life changes. She also supports those facing chronic pain, caregiving strain, body image concerns, or challenges tied to attachment and family of origin.
Her practice includes work on sleep, eating concerns, and stress from trauma or disaster. Sessions are designed to use each person’s existing strengths. Therapy may include tracking physical sensations, noticing thought patterns, or practicing new ways to communicate.
The aim is to build small, usable changes that add up over time. She offers services in English and works with adults. People can expect an approachable, steady presence focused on clear steps and real-life coping skills.
Approaches and how they work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to sensations in the body and how they relate to emotions. It can help when stress, chronic pain, or anxiety feel stuck in the body by offering ways to notice and gently change physical tension.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist creates a steady, nonjudgmental space so people can talk through feelings and make their own choices about change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers short, practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce distress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide what feels most useful based on their concerns, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to real life rather than a fixed program.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and use different formats for different needs. Many people find that alternating video for deeper work and messaging for quick check-ins fits their pace and keeps progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English