Christina Gower, LPC

Christina Gower is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, sleep problems, anger, and ADHD. She also supports people facing self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns. Christina writes plainly and listens carefully to understand each person’s immediate needs.

Christina uses practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and other approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies and client-centered skills to support values-based choices and clearer self-understanding. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with room for skills practice between meetings.

Her style is warm, interactive, and non-judgmental. She aims to make sessions feel respectful and straightforward, and to tailor the plan to each person rather than use a one-size-fits-all method. People meet her and work together to set clear, manageable steps.

Christina has eight years of experience as an LPC. She has worked in a range of clinical settings and with a wide variety of concerns, so she is familiar with both sudden crises and longer-term struggles. That background informs how she adapts tools to individual situations.

Therapy with Christina typically includes learning concrete coping skills, practicing new ways of responding, and checking progress regularly. She encourages honest talk about setbacks and adjusts the approach as needed. The focus is on helping people gain skills they can use in everyday life.

Using practical approaches in online therapy

Christina often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. CBT emphasizes short-term, goal-oriented work and can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by teaching concrete skills to change responses.

She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on identifying what matters to the person and taking small steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. Client-centered techniques are part of her style too, meaning she listens closely and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Christina collaborates with each person to identify goals, test approaches in real life, and adjust methods if something isn’t helping. The process is practical and guided by what the client prefers and needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, all of which make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be a good lower-bandwidth option, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people keep progress going between scheduled sessions.