Christina Burden , LPC

Christina Burden is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through life transitions and emotional challenges. She listens carefully and works with each person to find practical steps forward.

Christina often helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing body image struggles, caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, and issues related to aging. Her practice includes work around communication, commitment, codependency, and coping with major life changes.

Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions center on clear goals and learning skills you can use between meetings. Christina encourages self-acceptance, improved communication, and building emotional regulation skills that help in daily life.

She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions and tailors the approach to each person’s needs. Christina helps clients break problems into manageable steps and practices new ways of responding to stress and difficult emotions.

People who prefer practical, skill-focused work tend to do well with her approach. She aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where people can speak honestly and try out new strategies. Christina supports people who want steady, real-world tools to manage life’s ups and downs.

Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care

Christina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical change. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Narrative-influenced work helps people reframe their stories and separate themselves from limiting labels, which can be useful for identity, grief, and relationship concerns.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, life circumstances, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Christina adjusts the plan over time based on what helps the person make steady progress.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, live chat supports shorter exchanges, and messaging is useful for ongoing, flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and to continue work through life transitions.