About Christy
Christy Matthews offers calm, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, grief, relationship struggles, or major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical next steps when emotions feel overwhelming. Christy uses clear, steady guidance to help clients regain momentum and feel more in control of daily life.
She frames therapy as a partnership where the person sets goals and she helps find workable strategies. Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions like anger or shame, and building coping skills for anxiety and depression.
Background and approach
Christy also addresses issues such as addiction, caregiver strain, and challenges tied to chronic illness. Christy combines approaches that match each person’s needs rather than following one fixed method. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centered work to keep conversations focused on what matters most to the individual.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps translate thoughts into actions and reduce distressing reactions over time. She brings nine years of clinical experience and holds LMHC and LPCC credentials, with practice licensure in Indiana noted. Christy aims to make sessions practical and usable between visits, with homework and check-ins when helpful.
Her manner is compassionate and straightforward, which many people find helpful when they need clear next steps. If someone wants a therapist who balances empathy with direct tools for change, Christy offers consistent, structured care tailored to each person’s goals and life situation.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people change repeating cycles in close relationships. Client-centered therapy focuses on following your concerns and building understanding through empathic listening so you can choose your next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) shows how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle strong emotions.Deciding on an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and daily life, then try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan together with you until it feels useful and doable.
Confirm the available session options before booking so you know how sessions are offered at the time you sign up. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when that suits your schedule. It also makes it possible to continue consistent care during life transitions or when routines shift, while the therapist and client work together to choose the pace and tools that help most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Indiana
- Languages
- English