Christine Shim , LCSW

Christine Shim is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 10 years of experience working across nonprofit organizations and the healthcare sector. She has supported diverse age groups including teens, post-grad to pre-parenthood adults, and older adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, triggering events, and major life transitions. Christine combines practical skills and empathic listening to help people feel less stuck and more able to navigate stressors related to work, relationships, caregiving, health challenges, and loss.

Her style is collaborative, relatable, and strength based, drawing heavily from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) while honoring each person as the expert in their own story. She focuses on identifying patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships and on developing concrete coping strategies that fit each client s life and goals. Clinical work also addresses family dynamics, intimacy and relationship concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue.

Christine aims to create an individualized therapy experience that is genuine, respectful, and empowering. She helps clients explore their experiences at a pace that feels right for them and supports practical steps toward clearer thinking, improved coping, and renewed sense of possibility.

Therapeutic Approaches and How Online Therapy Fits

Christine uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical approach that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people build skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and tackle unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy complements this work by teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be especially useful for intense emotions and relationship challenges. She also applies client-centered therapy principles that prioritize the person s perspectives and goals and create space for collaborative decision making.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christine works together with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, preferences, and goals, adjusting techniques over time to fit what proves most helpful. The therapeutic plan evolves through conversation and shared planning.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, to continue care across locations, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for engaging in growth and change with a licensed professional.