Christine Toler

Christine Toler is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and major life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely, aiming to find practical steps clients can try between sessions. Christine draws on personal experience as someone who benefited from therapy early in life, and she brings that perspective into her work.

She earned an Education Specialist degree and holds Licensed Professional Counselor credentials in Tennessee and New Jersey. Christine has worked as a school counselor and a professional counselor since 2006 and 2010 respectively, giving her about ten years of experience in clinical practice. Her background includes supporting teens and adults with everyday struggles and bigger transitions.

Christine uses cognitive-based and mindfulness approaches in sessions. She emphasizes solution-focused work and prefers to move from understanding a problem to taking concrete steps that help. That often looks like identifying small experiments, trying new habits, and adjusting the plan as progress is noticed.

Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting strain, relationship tension, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also works with issues like panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, attachment difficulties, and personality-related challenges.

Clients can expect a direct but nonjudgmental style. Christine values transparency about her ongoing growth as a clinician and frames therapy as a collaborative process where action matters.

How CBT, Mindfulness, and Trauma-Focused Work Translate to Online Sessions

Christine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT breaks big problems into parts you can test, which can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and grounding practices. These techniques can help with stress, emotional reactivity, and staying present during difficult moments.

Trauma-Focused Therapy is applied when past events are affecting daily life. This approach looks at how trauma shows up now and then builds manageable steps to lessen its hold on current functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to prioritize. That decision is revisited as progress is made and new challenges appear.

Confirm the session formats offered before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins on a hectic day, or choose sessions that better match energy and concentration levels. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, mindfulness, and trauma-focused exercises to remote settings so clients can practice strategies between sessions.