Cristina Juisti, LPC

Cristina Juisti is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience in community mental health. She practices in Pennsylvania and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Cristina aims to help clients find small, practical steps toward feeling steadier day to day.

Her approach is straightforward and warm. She builds a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what feels hard right now. Sessions focus on what is happening today and on realistic next steps that clients can try between meetings.

Cristina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also draws on client-centered ideas to keep the work grounded in each person’s values. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.

Typical concerns she addresses include mood disorders, low self-esteem, social anxiety, relationship wounds such as abandonment and attachment issues, and life transitions like divorce or caregiving stress. She also supports people coping with body image, pregnancy and childbirth challenges, and sexuality or women’s issues.

Her style is collaborative and paced to the client. Cristina helps people identify choices they might not have noticed and practices tools they can use in real situations. The focus is on building hope and practical skills that fit everyday life.

Approaches that guide online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and offers specific tools to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and timing, with the therapist following the client’s lead and offering acceptance and reflection. Motivational Interviewing is a way of talking that helps when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about change and wants to find their own reasons to move forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. That decision is shared so the plan feels realistic and tailored to your life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a check-in without video is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep the process consistent over time.