Crista Lonergan, LPCC

Crista Lonergan is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with ten years of experience. Crista focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. They create a calm therapeutic space where clients can speak openly about difficult feelings without judgment.

Crista uses straightforward, practical methods to help people make changes in day-to-day life. Sessions often involve talking through unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of reacting to situations. That may include learning skills for emotion regulation, building confidence, and improving communication.

This work also supports people facing relationship strain, family tension, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. Crista has additional experience with ADHD, eating issues, parenting stress, and identity matters including LGBT and gender dysphoria topics. They also address adoption and foster care, immigration-related stress, and multicultural concerns.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Crista aims to meet each person where they are and tailor the pace and tools to individual goals.

Taking the first step can feel hard. Crista focuses on practical next steps and steady progress, working together with clients to build coping strategies and clearer choices.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and then try practical changes to see what helps. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes noticing thoughts and values-driven action, which can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone wants clearer life priorities.

Crista treats the selection of an approach as a team effort. They will talk with the person about goals, past attempts, and what feels doable. From there they adapt methods and pace so the work fits the client's needs and preferences rather than following a fixed plan.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow more face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can keep momentum between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when travel or timing would otherwise interfere.