Christine Shim , LCSW

Christine Shim is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She brings ten years of experience in nonprofit and healthcare settings to her work. Christine focuses on helping people who feel anxious, stuck, or overwhelmed by life changes.

Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions are collaborative and solution-focused. She leans on client-centered listening while using practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

Christine helps people sort through worries about relationships, self-esteem, career shifts, grief, and parenting stress. She also supports those navigating trauma, chronic illness, compassion fatigue, and identity concerns. Conversations aim to surface patterns and build manageable steps forward.

In the room she centers the person's priorities and pace. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and works alongside them to try different strategies. Goals are set together and adjusted as needed.

Her approach mixes short-term skills with deeper work on attachment, boundaries, and communication. People can expect clear, practical suggestions they can try between sessions. Christine emphasizes respect, honesty, and steady support throughout therapy.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where you are, and helps build a therapeutic relationship that guides the work. It is useful for people who want a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and choices.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts and actions into manageable parts and teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and thinking habits that get in the way of daily life.

Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, blends acceptance with practical coping tools like emotion regulation and distress tolerance. It can help when intense emotions, relationship conflicts, or repeated cycles of reacting make life harder.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christine will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as the work progresses.

Online therapy offers a range of formats to match practical needs: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, or text-based messaging for short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care with licensed professionals.