Christina McGuireLCSW

Christina McGuire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Maine. She has 15 years of experience helping people navigate stress, mood concerns, substance use, and life transitions. Christina trained at the University of Southern Maine where she earned a Master’s in Social Work, and also studied Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning at the University of New Hampshire.

Her background includes work in schools, health centers, homes, and outdoor settings. This mix shaped a practical style that focuses on learning from experience rather than only talking about it. Christina describes her approach as laid back, person centered, strengths based, relational, and goal oriented.

Sessions tend to focus on identifying useful skills and small steps that fit daily life. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and emotionally focused methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, and relationship strains. She also offers support around pregnancy and childbirth concerns as one of her focus areas.

Christina pays attention to relationships and attachment patterns, and she helps people unpack communication problems, codependency, caregiver stress, and grief. She also supports people working through addiction, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and personality disorder challenges by helping them set realistic goals and practice new ways of coping.

Her style aims to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Christina helps people set clear goals, try practical strategies, and reflect on what they learn between sessions. Her experience in experiential and outdoor education informs a hands-on, learning-by-doing attitude in therapy.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients shape goals that matter to them. This approach supports people who want a respectful, collaborative space to figure things out.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Christina helps people try small experiments and practical strategies to manage anxiety, mood, and impulsivity. CBT is useful when someone wants step-by-step tools to change patterns that cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then pick or blend methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as goals shift.

Because session formats are not specified here, please confirm current online session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, letting people meet from different locations, or offering shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. They also make it simpler to continue care during life transitions and to practice skills in everyday routines.