Christine Garwick-Foley, LPC
Compassionate counseling that helps you move forward
Details
| Name | Christine Garwick-Foley |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | Minnesota |
| Licensed in | Minnesota |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 25 |
About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Minnesota with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship strain. Her approach aims to help people regain momentum and find practical ways forward.
She draws from Narrative Therapy to help people tell clearer stories about their lives and from Client-Centered Therapy to make space for the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes. Emotionally-Focused and Existential ideas help when feelings and meaning are central concerns. Sessions move beyond passive conversation.
Christine helps people locate personal strengths they already carry and teaches a few concrete skills they can use between meetings. Therapy can include work on sleep, eating, chronic pain coping, grief, and coming to terms with change. Her work also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
She supports people navigating divorce, domestic violence aftermath, and family of origin concerns. Christine pays attention to how physical health, emotion, and life purpose interact. People meet her for short-term problem solving and longer-term reflection.
She offers phone and video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, complete the site matching questionnaire and schedule a session that suits your timing.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Grief among the things Christine works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Hypnotherapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Christine among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Christine directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Christine directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Practical Approaches Work Online
Christine often uses Narrative Therapy to help people separate themselves from the problems they face and reframe life chapters in clearer terms. This can be useful for grieving, relationship questions, identity concerns, and feeling stuck. Client-Centered Therapy shapes how sessions feel - the focus is on listening, reflecting, and building a respectful space so a person can make choices that fit them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides simple steps to test and change thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, sleep, mood, and daily routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try a few ways of working, and adjust based on what helps most. People often mix narrative work with skill-based CBT or deeper emotional exploration depending on the issue and the pace they prefer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets the therapist and client use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a convenient check-in. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, homework review, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, sleeping and eating problems, anger, career issues, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She blends Narrative Therapy with client-centered listening and practical CBT tools to help people rewrite unhelpful stories and try concrete changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Minnesota.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and starting therapy handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session.
Contacting this therapist
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