Christina Ashby, LCSW

Christina Ashby is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She greets each person with warmth and a nonjudgmental attitude. She aims to meet clients where they are and supports them in finding their own strengths. Christina notes the importance of integrating a person's spiritual beliefs when that is meaningful to them.

With 12 years of experience, Christina draws on practical tools to help people cope with depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, workplace stress, and parenting challenges. She also addresses issues such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Sessions focus on clear goals and realistic steps that fit day-to-day life.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. For relationship concerns she may use elements of the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy to improve communication and connection. Christina works collaboratively to choose strategies that match each person's needs and values.

Christina asks clients to be located in Texas for sessions and to follow simple session guidelines she reviews at intake. She invites people to describe their family situations, past diagnoses and medications, current supports, trauma history, medical issues, developmental history, substance use, and personal strengths when they first reach out. This information helps shape a focused plan.

Those who prefer faith-informed care can bring spiritual beliefs into the work. Christina emphasizes steady, practical progress and stays alongside people as they sort through complicated life moments.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Christina commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work in session. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change behaviors and moods. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system.

She also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. DBT-style skills focus on practical tools for managing intense feelings and improving relationships. Together these approaches aim to give clear skills people can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and preferences. Then she helps choose methods that fit the situation and adjusts the plan as needs change.

The original biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so please confirm current options before scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins, and remove travel time. It also lets people practice skills where they live and bring real-life examples into the conversation.