Christina McGinn , LPC

Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Wisconsin with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Christina draws on a mix of practical tools and steady support to help people feel more confident and able to face challenges.

Christina has worked in crisis services, corrections, community settings, and private practice. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a Master of Science in Education-Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin. Those roles shaped a down-to-earth approach to care.

In sessions she often uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness techniques to help with emotional regulation and stress. These methods are used in everyday language and practice, not jargon.

Christina pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, body-image and eating issues, and work-related stress. She also supports people navigating ADHD symptoms, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. She frames challenges as solvable problems and works step by step toward realistic goals.

Therapy with Christina tends to be supportive and encouraging, with clear steps and practical exercises. Sessions include talk-and-skill work, homework when helpful, and short-term coaching for decision points. She aims to help people build skills they can use after therapy ends.

How Christina’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in ways that fit online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with simple, practical experiments. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behavior, which can be useful for mood instability, anger, and relationship stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try approaches that feel like a good fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain momentum between meetings.