Christie Carol Spahr

Christie Carol Spahr is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, lonely, or unsure about relationships and self-worth. Christie offers a calm, open way of talking that aims to help people feel seen and less alone.

Christie focuses on practical steps that build self-compassion, tolerance, trust, and confidence. She supports people working through depression, panic, attachment wounds, abandonment, and life transitions. She also addresses concerns like body image, communication problems, control issues, and the effects of trauma.

Her approach blends humanistic, existential, person-centered, motivational, narrative, and spoken-word styles. Sessions are meant to be openhearted and nonjudgmental so feelings can be talked through honestly. She encourages clients to notice values, meaning, and personal strengths while practicing small, doable changes.

Christie studied religious studies at the University of Oregon and earned a master of arts in psychology with a specialty in marriage and family therapy. Before graduate school she worked in sports marketing and studied Indigenous cultures, which shaped her broad view of people and culture.

She brings a lifetime habit of endurance from marathon running into her work - a reminder that progress can be gradual and persistent. Christie invites people to take a first brave step toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support along the way.

Approaches that guide online conversation and growth

Christie draws on humanistic and person-centered ideas that emphasize listening, acceptance, and helping people name what matters to them. These approaches help with stress, self-esteem, relationship questions, and feelings of isolation by creating space to notice strengths and personal values.

She also uses narrative and motivational influences that focus on the stories people tell about themselves and small steps toward change. Narrative work can help reframe stuck patterns like shame or blame, while motivational methods support setting and following through on realistic goals.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Christie collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and pace. Together they check what helps and make adjustments as progress unfolds.

The therapist’s biography does not list which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins between commitments, and let people choose whether to use video or an alternative based on what feels most practical for them.