Christine Broadwater, LCMHC

Christine Broadwater is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 33 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing relationship problems, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and difficulty coping with life changes. Christine approaches therapy as a collaborative process and treats each person as the expert on their own life.

She believes people already have strengths that can help them move forward. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients identify practical steps they can try between meetings. She emphasizes motivation, rebuilding confidence, and improving communication in close relationships.

Christine uses a mix of approaches suited to each person’s needs. These include client-centered work that follows the client's lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox when they fit the client’s goals.

Her background includes long-term work with stress, anxiety, mood disorders, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with issues that affect family life such as adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and divorce-related concerns. Individuals facing identity, multicultural, or LGBT-related questions can bring those topics into therapy as well.

Therapy with Christine aims to be straightforward and practical. She helps people set clear goals, try small changes, and track progress over time. To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a brief matching questionnaire.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building on their strengths. In practice the therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people choose goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. It can help with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Christine will discuss your needs and goals and help select techniques that fit your situation and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can change as you make progress.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what online formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, avoid travel time, or have shorter check-ins when schedules call for it. Therapists can use phone or video formats when offered, and the focus remains on practical steps, skill practice, and measurable progress rather than on promises of outcome.