Christie Gait

Christie Gait is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 11 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and address relationship challenges. Christie also supports people who have faced trauma or abuse and those working on self-esteem and motivation.

She centers sessions on the client's story and strengths. She helps people break down problems into small, manageable steps. Christie encourages practical changes that fit day-to-day life and builds on what already works for each person.

Christie often helps people who are dealing with major life changes. She talks through coping strategies for separation, divorce, blended family concerns, and shifts in responsibilities. She also addresses feelings of emptiness, guilt, shame, and the sense of being isolated or alone.

Attachment questions and patterns show up in many of her conversations. She supports people wrestling with abandonment, commitment worries, jealousy, or control struggles. Christie helps people learn clearer ways to communicate and set boundaries that match their goals.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She treats the person in front of her as the expert of their story and offers tools and perspective to make change more possible. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Christie aims to make that step easier to take.

How therapy approaches meet your everyday challenges online

Christie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at practical change and better coping. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. That work helps when anxiety or negative self-talk keeps someone stuck.

Another frequent focus is on attachment and relationship patterns. Sessions look at how early connections influence current expectations and behaviors, and then practice new ways of communicating and setting boundaries. That can help with loneliness, commitment concerns, and repeated relationship struggles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christie collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and comfort level. She will adjust methods over time based on what is helping and what feels doable in daily life.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue momentum between life changes without rearranging their whole schedule.