Christine Whittaker , LMFT

Christine Whittaker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life transitions and relationship struggles. She combines clinical training and practical coaching to help people connect thoughts and actions, discover meaning and purpose, and develop realistic, positive solutions that fit each person’s daily life.

As a Clinical Supervisor for MFT and MHC and a life coach, she brings experience treating mental, emotional, and behavioral concerns as well as relationship distress. She has worked with people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, intimacy and sexuality concerns, parenting and blended family issues, adoption and foster care challenges, and a wide range of interpersonal and attachment difficulties. Her practice includes work with relationship addiction, codependency, self-esteem, abuse in its many forms, and the process of separation or breakup.

Christine also consults as a family divorce mediator, child custody evaluator, Nationally Certified Parent Instructor, and Qualified Parent Coordinator. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused techniques while individualizing treatment to meet the specific needs of each person or family. Known for empathy, compassion, and a nonjudgmental, strengths-based approach, she aims to help clients move out of feeling stuck toward greater confidence, clearer communication, and more functional relationship patterns.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take steps based on personal values. It is useful for managing anxiety, stress, and life changes by building psychological flexibility.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It provides practical tools for addressing anxiety, low mood, and everyday coping skills by teaching strategies to reframe thinking and adjust actions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotional experience and attachment patterns within relationships. It can help couples and families improve communication, repair connection, and address intimacy-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Christine works collaboratively to determine which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She tailors techniques and adjusts the plan over time so the work aligns with what matters most to the client.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexibility - sessions can occur via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, access care across locations, and maintain ongoing support between in-person options.