- Guilt and shame work
- CBT and DBT skills
- Mindfulness and somatic
About Christina
Christina Colistro is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Idaho with three years of professional experience. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, depression, and coping with life changes. Christina also notes a focus on guilt and shame alongside concerns such as attachment issues, abandonment, and isolation.
Her style combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with mindfulness and body awareness. Sessions often include practical skills for managing panic, mood shifts, and overwhelming stress. Christina aims to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck and learn small actions that change how they respond to difficult feelings.
Christina uses tools drawn from cognitive approaches and skills-based methods to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also integrates somatic awareness to help people recognize how stress and trauma show up in the body. These methods are used alongside work on attachment and relational patterns when relevant.
She describes her in-room presence as direct and honest with a bit of humor. That approach is intended to make difficult conversations more approachable and less heavy. Christina encourages clients to set clear goals and to try practical steps between sessions.
People who contact her should expect collaborative planning and straightforward discussion about next steps. The process emphasizes learning concrete coping tools, improving emotional regulation, and finding ways to act in line with personal values.
Therapeutic approaches used for guilt and shame online
Christina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change thought patterns that fuel guilt and shame. CBT breaks down unhelpful thoughts and tests them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and self-blame. She also uses Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. These skills teach short practices for calming intense feelings and for making steadier choices when emotions run high. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina will work with each person to see which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust methods over time to better address guilt, shame, or trauma-related reactions. The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, such as having shorter check-ins during a work break, avoiding travel time, or choosing a session that does not require being on camera. Licensed professionals can use skills, talk therapy, and body-awareness exercises effectively in remote sessions when both people agree on how to work.Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Experience
3+ years
Listed in
Idaho
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include guilt and shame, attachment concerns, and isolation.
How would she approach shame or guilt in sessions?
She uses evidence-based techniques alongside mindfulness and somatic awareness to identify unhelpful thoughts and bodily reactions. The approach mixes skills practice with exploration of how past patterns influence current feelings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years of professional work experience as an LPC in Idaho.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Idaho.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not specify session formats; please confirm the current session options before booking.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.