Christine Manturuk , LPC

Christine Manturuk is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a board certified art therapist (ATR-BC) with more than ten years of experience supporting adults through difficult life moments. She focuses on helping people navigate transitions, process trauma, and reconnect with a sense of purpose and meaning. Her work emphasizes clarity, compassion, and connection, offering a grounded presence that helps clients explore both practical coping skills and deeper emotional material.

Her approach is eclectic and strength based, thoughtfully drawing from person-centered practice, art therapy, gestalt methods, psychodynamic ideas, and trauma-informed care. This blend allows her to tailor interventions to each individual's needs while honoring their capacities and resilience. She brings training in expressive approaches alongside talk-based therapies to support self-expression and insight.

Christine earned her Masters in Art Therapy and Counseling from Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions in 2015 and completed a three-year Gestalt training program in 2021. As a board certified art therapist and LPC, she combines clinical training and creative modalities to assist clients working on stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family concerns, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and other life changes. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and collaborative, aimed at helping people build clearer understanding and more compassionate ways of living.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client is the expert on their own experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people explore feelings, clarify values, and build self-trust. Psychodynamic Therapy attends to patterns in thoughts, relationships, and emotions that develop over time; exploring these patterns can help address long-standing struggles such as relationship difficulties, grief, or mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to present-moment experience through simple awareness practices that can reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress, anxiety, and chronic emotional pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Christine collaborates with each person to identify methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds so the plan remains practical and responsive.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, health, or geographic constraints. These formats make regular engagement more accessible and allow therapists and clients to focus on treatment goals in ways that suit a client’s schedule and comfort level.