Christian is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Doctoral Candidate in Counseling Education and Supervision. Christian's first priority is building a strong relationship with clients. He believes good rapport is a precursor to good therapeutic work. This is accomplished through a balance of being genuine and compassionate with clients. Christian invites clients to provide feedback to ensure they get what they need from the therapeutic process.
Christian utilizes multiple therapeutic approaches based on each client's specific needs. Some of these research-informed approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Neuroscience Psycho-Education, Trauma-Informed Therapies, Narrative Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, And Gottman Therapy. Christian's approach involves understanding your unique life story and utilizing an approach tailored to you. He believes change occurs within the context of collaborative care and research-informed interventions.
Christian has also taught multiple counseling courses as an adjunct professor for Geneva College.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Anger Management
CBT for Insomnia
Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Divorce Mediation
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Exposure and Response Prevention (EXRP)
Exposure Therapy
Faith-Based Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Grief Therapy
Mindfulness-based
Motivational Interviewing
Narrative Therapy
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Relational Therapy
Seeking Safety
Sex Therapy
Smoking Cessation
Social Skills training
Solution-focused Therapy
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Gottman Couples Therapy (Trained)
Structural Family Therapy
Bowenian Therapy
Internal Family Systems