Christine SolumLICSW

Christine Solum is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota with 25 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Christine also helps with parenting concerns, relationship struggles, and pregnancy and childbirth related emotional issues.

Her approach centers on the person's needs. She draws on client-centered principles to create a respectful, listening space. Christine often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change patterns of thought and behavior.

She adapts sessions to fit each person rather than using a single method for everyone. That can mean practical goal-setting, trying new ways to respond to stress, or talking through painful memories at a comfortable pace. Christine emphasizes collaboration and clear steps people can try between sessions.

Over her career she has worked across a wide range of concerns including grief, postpartum depression, obsessive-compulsive patterns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing family problems, divorce and separation, or issues related to blended families.

Christine explains options and plans in plain language and helps people choose what feels most workable. She encourages small, steady changes and respects the pace each person needs. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps toward clearer goals and practical strategies.

How Christine Uses Client-Centered and CBT Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions. It is useful for building trust, sorting out feelings about pregnancy, parenting stress, grief, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. CBT offers practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, and unhelpful behavior patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christine will talk with each person about their goals, history, and daily life. She collaborates on a plan that may mix listening, skill practice, and small experiments to see what helps most.

If you are considering online sessions, check the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins during a workday or between appointments. It can also let someone use techniques in the setting where they usually live and parent, which can make practice more practical. Licensed professionals can adjust pace and homework to match each person's needs as the work unfolds.