Christina McGinn, LPC

Christina McGinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 15 years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people build confidence and face difficult situations with more ease. Her work aims to make practical changes that matter in day-to-day life.

Before private practice she worked in crisis services and corrections, and she has also provided care in community settings. She holds a Master of Science in Education-Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside. Those roles shaped a straightforward, results-oriented manner in sessions.

Her session style is warm and encouraging. She uses Motivational Interviewing techniques to help people find their own reasons for change. Christina also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, appears among the approaches she uses to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness strategies and solution-focused work also show up in her practice when people want short-term, practical steps.

Christina sees a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship issues, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, and career matters. She also supports people dealing with body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and other overlapping challenges. Her goal is to work collaboratively to identify clear steps people can try between sessions.

How Christina blends evidence-based methods online

Christina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life, which can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, handling stress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.

She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to set achievable goals. Together these approaches give practical tools and short exercises people can try between sessions. Christina will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals, and she adjusts plans as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit counseling into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.