Christine Garwick-Foley , LPC

Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who uses a person-focused approach to help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, depression, or major life changes. She draws on 25 years of experience in Minnesota to support adults facing stress, relationship strain, body image concerns, and trauma-related problems.

Her work recognizes the whole person - physical, emotional, and spiritual - and looks for practical ways to reconnect those parts. Sessions combine listening with active strategies to reduce symptoms and build everyday coping skills. She also uses techniques aimed at processing difficult memories and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns.

Christine helps people handle a wide range of concerns such as sleep problems, eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, and chronic pain or illness. She also addresses aging and caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment worries, and problems that stem from family of origin or divorce and separation.

Her approach borrows from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused work, existential thinking, and EMDR techniques. In practice this means you can expect both empathy and concrete tools to try between sessions. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Sessions are offered in English and are arranged from Minnesota. She focuses on adult clients and does not accept international clients. For many people, therapy becomes a place to practice new ways of relating to themselves and others while moving toward clearer goals.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing

Many of Christine's methods translate well to online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding your experience and building a trusting relationship, which creates space to talk through what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and can include simple exercises to try between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to help people process traumatic memories and can be adapted for remote work with guided protocols.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and suggest a path that fits your goals and comfort level. You can try different techniques and adjust the plan as you go so the work stays relevant to your needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and guided techniques, phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited, chat can serve as a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.