Christina McGinn

Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Wisconsin with 15 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people feel more confident and able to face difficult situations. Christina has worked in crisis services, corrections, community settings, and private practice, bringing a range of real-world experience to sessions.

She holds a Master of Science in Education-Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside. Christina blends practical tools and supportive conversation to help clients make steady progress. Her sessions aim to be encouraging and straightforward, with clear steps people can try between meetings.

Christina uses motivational interviewing to help clients clarify what they want to change. She also draws on elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness techniques to build coping skills and emotional regulation. These methods are combined with solution-focused strategies to set achievable goals.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, intimacy issues, ADHD, bipolar, parenting challenges, caregiver stress, body image, and career questions. Christina also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness or disability, and relationship communication struggles.

Her approach is practical and supportive. Sessions move at a pace the client can manage, and she helps people try small experiments that fit into daily life. Prospective clients are invited to reach out and begin the intake steps that lead to scheduling.

Approaches that guide online work and skill building

Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques are helpful when strong emotions make daily tasks harder and for improving relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She encourages trying different strategies and adjusting the plan based on what feels most useful for day-to-day life.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to practice skills in the environments where challenges happen, so progress can be applied between meetings.