Christina McGinn, LPC

Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with 15 years of experience. She guides people toward feeling more assertive and able to handle hard situations. She has worked in crisis services, corrections, independent practice, and community settings. Christina’s background includes a Bachelor of Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a Master of Science in Education-Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin.

Christina uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness-based ideas to teach skills for managing intense emotions. Sessions tend to focus on practical tools, steady support, and clear goals rather than long lectures.

She helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions, along with relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Other areas she works with include grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, career questions, attention difficulties, and coping with life changes. She also lists support around abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and blended family issues.

Christina’s manner is comforting and encouraging. She aims to work collaboratively so clients feel heard and build skills they can use outside sessions. The result is practical progress people can notice in daily life.

To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability using the site Start Therapy flow.

Therapeutic approaches and online care options

Christina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and building better communication.

She also incorporates Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. That method is conversational and goal-oriented, useful when someone feels unsure about making a change. Christina will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals rather than insisting on one method.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments during breaks or between other commitments. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm which formats are offered before booking. The therapist will work with clients to choose a structure that matches their goals and practical needs, aiming for sessions that feel useful and manageable in day-to-day life.