Christine Frederick

Christine Frederick is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, relationship strains, and caregiving burdens. Christine uses a straightforward, strengths-based style that aims to make therapy practical and understandable.

She meets people where they are and helps them identify personal strengths to build on. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings. Christine’s work includes support for hospice and end-of-life counseling, caregiver stress, and bereavement concerns, along with mood and trauma-related issues.

Her approach draws from client-centered ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused practices. That means she listens for what matters most to the client, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior, and helps set short-term, achievable goals. Conversations are aimed at making daily life a bit easier and at reducing sources of ongoing strain.

Christine has experience with a wide range of concerns including substance use, parenting and fatherhood issues, codependency, attachment questions, anger, and compassion fatigue. She works with people who are navigating relationship changes, divorce and separation, and those coping with guilt or forgiveness.

Those interested in starting can expect a collaborative process that emphasizes practical strategies and personal strengths. Christine helps clients explore options and choose steps that fit their lives and values.

How Christine’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard and figure out their own next steps when facing grief, relationship strain, or caregiving stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, or substance-related concerns.

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable changes. Sessions often set short-term goals and test what works for daily life, which can be useful for managing stress, parenting challenges, and end-of-life planning concerns.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Christine collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies as goals evolve.

Session formats are not specified in the profile, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people meet from a quiet space that works for them. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to an online setting so the work continues between appointments.