Christine Busch
Supportive counselor blending practical strategies and empathy
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 32 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Christine
Christine Busch is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with more than three decades of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges.
Background and approach
She draws on a strength-based perspective and an interactive style to help clients explore mood concerns such as depression and anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and addiction issues, and coping with significant life changes. Her background includes work around grief, intimacy and parenting struggles, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a variety of attachment and caregiving stresses.
Christine centers the client’s knowledge of their own life while offering practical tools and skills to move forward. She integrates cognitive behavioral techniques when appropriate, and sometimes suggests between-session exercises to practice new ways of thinking and acting.
She also assists clients in locating community supports when needed and attends to broader concerns such as communication, codependency, midlife questions, and aging-related stresses. Her approach balances empathy with active collaboration to help people identify goals and make sustainable shifts.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and practical tools
Christine commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach often includes goal-oriented exercises and practical homework to practice new skills between sessions. She also draws from client-centered therapy, creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work and the therapist offers empathy and collaborative support. Additionally, elements of trauma-focused therapy may be used when addressing past harm, focusing on processing difficult experiences in ways that reduce symptoms and increase coping capacity.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, then adapt methods over time so the plan fits what the client wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with technology. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access support from home or other convenient locations while working on practical strategies and personal goals with a licensed professional.
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Experience
32+ years
Licensed
Missouri
Languages
English